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I just got a new beardie (Bahamut) to keep my old beardie (Falkor) company. Falkor was not eating well and losing weight despite dewormings ect.. The good news is that Bahamut and Falkor get along great and Falkor has now put on a lot of weight and looks fantastic. My question is that since I've never had a pair of them before I am curious about their interactions. They are both unsexed (any tips on sexing them is welcome) and I do not want them to mate. Falkor is far smaller than Bahamut, but he tends to chase Bahamut around. I also often find Falkor laying ontop of Bahamut. No genitals are visable and nothing seems to be going on. Is this just normal behavoir?
 
ESPECIALLY not knowing what sex they are, and with the size difference.......not to mention the behavior you described, they should not be housed together. Though I believe that Beardies CAN be housed together, it should only be done when they are of the same size, and if they get along well....and NEVER 2 males. The larger one may very well get tired of the smaller one chasing him around, and cause injury (or worse) to the smaller animal. Even a smaller animal can bully a larger animal, causing them not to have access to the proper basking and food. If it is a male/female pair, chances are that they will be breeding, whether you see it happen or not. How old are they?

Vickie Dachiu has an excellent page on sexing Beardies on her site, or if you can post good pics of the vent area under the tail of each, we can try to see what sex they are.
 
Dragons don't need the company of other dragons. When you house them together a social dynamic happens where you have one dominant dragon - the one who eats all the food and gets teh best basking spots - and the lower dragon who gets what's left over. The danger here is that the lower dragon is generally stressed out and can become more susceptible to illness, as well as the very real possibility of an all out physical attack on one dragon by the other.
Gender is a big role. Two males should never be kept together, I wouldnt' keep a male and female pairing together either because the female can be overbred as well as stressed and injured. Sometimes two females will work if they are the same size but even then it's not a guarantee and you need to keep a close eye on them and separate them at the first sign of trouble.
Your older dragon could have started eating and improving for either of two reasons: your new dragon is the opposite gender so your old dragon was shaping up to show off, or he's doing what he can to keep himself the top dragon in his area. Chasing and taking the upper basking spot (i.e. laying on top of the other dragon) are both dominant behaviours. They may also be mating behaviours, I'm not 100% sure on that one.
 
Thanks for the info guys. I will try and post some good pictures soon. So far neither one seems to be hurting the other. No missing toes or even scales. Also I am very careful to feed them seperately so that neither gets malnourished. The only exception is their greens which I constantly refill when they get low. I was always told that beardies are social animals which is why I tried this tatic.
 
Even if you do not see them physically hurting each other, stress put on one by the other can be very hard on them. And, once is all it takes for one to be seriously hurt...and you may not be there to stop it. I really don't think it's a good idea to keep these 2 animals together, at least until they are more similar in size and you know the sexes for certain.
 
Here are the pictures that were requested. The vent ones aren't the best, but my camera didn't like focusing on it for some reason. Let me know what you think.

Bahamut (The big one):

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Falkor (The smaller one):

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