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housing beardies togeather

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Ello all,
i have a bearded dragon and am thinking bout geting her a companion. shes about a year old now and is looking mightly lonely. i was wondering if you people who have more than one berdie and houses them togeather could help me weigh the pros and cons. as far as i know berdies like company ( please correct me if im wrong ). i have a female beadie and want to get her a boy friend but i dont want to wake up one morning and find 30 eggs in a shalow hole. are there steps i can take to prevent this if i get a male or am i just being stupid?
 
If you house a male and female together, they will breed. Your best chance if you really want a second dragon is to get another female of the SAME size. Beardies don't actually need companions though, they live alone in the wild, and are probably happier alone, since there is no competition for food and basking spots and such.

If you do get a second dragon, you will need a big cage for both, and a second cage setup for the new one to quarantine it in, and to keep it in if the two don't get along, as sometimes happens even with females.

If you get a new one and add it into an established cage, change out all of the bedding, take out the 'furniture' and scrub it down, and when you put it back in, arrange it differently, so that both dragons are going into a 'new' cage at the same time, so there should be little or no territorial disputes.

As a last note, all dragons become pretty slack when they get to be about a year old, so your dragon probably isn't bored or looking for company, it's just getting to be an adult.
 
i have done a bit more resurch and from what i can tell you have to do something to get them to breed, you just dont pop them n and they do the nasty. is this true?
 
ok besides breeding is there anything else i should be aware of before i get a second dragon?
 
They can fight if they don't have a big enough cage, stress is something to watch out for, if one dragon is much more dominant than the other, the less dominate one may hide and not eat, which of course will eventually kill it.

The dragons need to be within 2 inches of the same total length and very close in weight, or one dragon can easily kill and eat the other.

For a cage size, you need at LEAST a 4 ft. long, by 2 foot deep cage, and around 2 foot tall as well. Have plenty of hiding spots, and multiple basking, so the dragons aren't competing for the same space. Also, it's helpful to have more than one feeding bowl, so they aren't fighting over the same one, and don't feed them crickets at the same time, or one will have a tail or foot bitten. I tend to feed worms instead of crix when they're a year old, and handfeed them, or feed them out of the cage.

PLEASE, don't forget to quarantine your new dragon, no matter who you get it from. Keep it completely seperate from your current reptiles, and have a couple of fecals done on the new one, and a fecal done on the old one, just to be sure no one has parasites.
 
as far as i can see so far there are only problems (stress, breeding, them killing each other, etc.) would it not just be easyer to give them seperate housings? what are the pros to having them togeather?
 
I really can't think of any pros of keeping them together if you aren't interested in breeding them.
Everything Jennifer said is accurate, those are all potential problems with communal housing.
They're not guaranteed problems though, I housed beardeds together for years without a single incident. If the group is compatible, and you don't have two males together, they will live and feed together just fine, even sharing basking sites by lating on top of each other.
It's still best though to provide multiple basking spots, and a 4x2 cage is minimum for a pair.

The comments on quarantine is very important. Certain things such as coccidia are very common in dragons, and any additions should be strictly quarantined for a minimum of 3 months before being exposed to your other dragon. A couple of fecal tests during this time is a good idea.

As far as company though, beardeds don't mind it, but they also don't have an inherent need for it. I kept groups, and I also kept some that lived alone their entire lives. There was basically no difference in behavior or attitude, with the exception of the lack of gestures and such associated with breeding and interacting with each other.
 
I have never had any problems housing my TWO MALES together they have never fought once. there the best of friends i think everyone likes company including beardies so unless you just dont want them to mate at all i'd try to house them together
 
lol yes i'm 100% positive there two males and there both over two years old so yes they are at a breeding age, and dont talk to me like a dumbass again.
 
lol yes i'm 100% positive there two males and there both over two years old so yes they are at a breeding age, and dont talk to me like a dumbass again.
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A little sensitive about your male beardies?? Sheesh. I didn't see anyone "talking like a dumbass" (well, maybe one person now).

I'd still love to see a vent shot of both of your males.
 
yeah i bet you would like a pictures of bearded dragons vents, you freakin perverted pyscho
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You really need to grow up. You're not gaining any respect here. For someone who is 20 years old, you sure do act like a 13 year old.

I'll ask one last time before I report your immature behaviour... Why don't you post pictures of your dragons so we can all see if they are really two males like you say they are??
 
Well, I sent a warning notice to this "person" and got the following reply:

dont care go the hell away
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Bet he won't pay $10 to get back on here, either......
 
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