So, this last weekend we went to a local exotic pets expo and ended up bringing home another Dragon.
She's about 13" long and quite a lot bigger than our little 8" hatchling Rico.
As this was an unexpected addition (as soon as the wife went "Awwww", I knew I was in trouble, as that's how we got the cat too),
I didn't have an enclosure for her, and I'm a big opponent of co-habitation [especially given the size differences].
I did have a 20 Long tank laying around and had enough spare lights (and a quick run to walmart for more fixtures)
to set up a temporary enclosure while waiting for the new one that I ordered for her (48x18x17, front sliding doors).
Now, since she's so much bigger than Rico, we decided to put her into Rico's enclosure (after a good, solid, cleaning)
and put Rico into the temporary 20 Long. MISTAKE :mrgreen:
Rico was P****D
He spent the next 3 days black as sin. I mean his entire body went black and he wanted
nothing to do with us at all.
Finally, after 3 days of this, I put him back into "his" enclosure just to check. Within 5 minutes, he was back to his normal
coloration and perky again. 5 Minutes! Ok, so now I'm cleaning everything again and putting the small dragon into the big
tank and the big dragon into the small tank
(She doesn't seem to care one way or the other, but boy Rico did!)
She's about 13" long and quite a lot bigger than our little 8" hatchling Rico.
As this was an unexpected addition (as soon as the wife went "Awwww", I knew I was in trouble, as that's how we got the cat too),
I didn't have an enclosure for her, and I'm a big opponent of co-habitation [especially given the size differences].
I did have a 20 Long tank laying around and had enough spare lights (and a quick run to walmart for more fixtures)
to set up a temporary enclosure while waiting for the new one that I ordered for her (48x18x17, front sliding doors).
Now, since she's so much bigger than Rico, we decided to put her into Rico's enclosure (after a good, solid, cleaning)
and put Rico into the temporary 20 Long. MISTAKE :mrgreen:
Rico was P****D
He spent the next 3 days black as sin. I mean his entire body went black and he wantednothing to do with us at all.
Finally, after 3 days of this, I put him back into "his" enclosure just to check. Within 5 minutes, he was back to his normal
coloration and perky again. 5 Minutes! Ok, so now I'm cleaning everything again and putting the small dragon into the big
tank and the big dragon into the small tank
(She doesn't seem to care one way or the other, but boy Rico did!)
They are just so funny & scary when they get like that. I have 5 adult males and I don't dare move anything, when cleaning, they watch me very carefully & check their furniture to make sure EVERYTHING is the way it should be, then proceed to lick everything just to be double sure :lol: So I can quite understand why he'd be so annoyed to be moved. You'll have your new tank soon, though, so your new dragon will do fine, as you said, she wasn't concerned when she got moved around! Which means you have a great personality dragon on your hands! 
