Male and Female housed together

[Spyrosmom]

I think a lot about getting another baby beardie. Everyone says you can have females together but can't house males and females together... Well my uncle does. He has 2 full grown beardies. He had 4 living together as babies, but had to rehome 2 of the males when they started getting aggressive with one another. However, the male and female (who are now a few years old) have been living together in harmony ever since. In fact, the male is a little protective of the female. I was handling both of them and whenever I touched the female, he became very alert of what I was doing. Is this just a luck of the draw thing? Or is it because they were raised as babies together? Or is it normal that a male and female can live together? She has laid eggs once but they never hatched- not sure if that's relevant to asking if I cplus house 2 beardies together, but it's extra information.

 

[Gormagon]

It is not wise to house them together in any combination. That is all I am going to say!

 

[Spyrosmom]

It is not wise to house them together in any combination. That is all I am going to say!

He must have just gotten lucky with his combination of these two particular beardies I suppose. Plus mine is 6 months now so introducing a baby female could be disastrous

 

[Gormagon]

It is not wise to house them together in any combination. That is all I am going to say!

He must have just gotten lucky with his combination of these two particular beardies I suppose. Plus mine is 6 months now so introducing a baby female could be disastrous

I would not take that chance

 

[kingofnobbys]

Are they Rankins or C entrals (the beardies your uncle has housed together) ?

Rankins are commonly found in colonies and often housed together 1m with a few f.

I would advise against housing two centrals together , even a mixed pair (m + f) (UNLESS they are in a HUGE (I mean huge , maybe 8ft long x 4ft wide enclosure with lots of basking spots and lots of hides so the female has an opportunity to hide from , get some piece from the male)).

Practice here (in Australia is centrals are housed separately, and males only introduced to the female in order to let them mate (so only temporaily housed together).

 

[kingofnobbys]

It is not wise to house them together in any combination. That is all I am going to say!

He must have just gotten lucky with his combination of these two particular beardies I suppose. Plus mine is 6 months now so introducing a baby female could be disastrous

I agree - at the very LEAST the tiny hatchling will be dominated and will be extremely stressed , and with such a large size difference .
The tiny hatchling is very likely to disappear one day as it will become a snack for the larger (hungry) beardie.