Hi!



I haven't posted here in MONTHS, -some of you 'old timers' out here might remember me as "Joel" (before we started getting several of them!)

I'm now married and living in Toronto, Ontario Canada, and attending college for Web Page Design (but let's talk about BDs...)



Anyway, and without reading any further along the string for reiterating replies to the question 'is it safe to put a (Uro) with young beardie?', no, it is not.

Beardies are notorious tail-nippers and instigators of territorial aggressions (perceived by you or not, ALL beardies 'stake a claim' to some part of their cage and WILL defend it!), -and ALL uros are fiendishly strong and un-relenting when roused to anger, they will pursue and kill any aggressor.

Uros have killed many a conspecific of 'another specie' in this matter. They (uro) can wage an effective aggression upon a combatant bigger than themselves, -and usually (if not always!), WIN (read: 'kill the other').



I would advise against co-housing different species of reptiles anyway, -firstly, their heat/light/enviromental requirements are often non-congruent. And there is the ever-present risk of cross-specie vectoring of parasites (what parasite is mildly a nuisance in one specie, can be devastatingly deadly to another specie vis the 'natural gutload' of parasites in anoles tends to be 'dangerous' (okay, too strong of word, but "you should avoid this newbie error" to beardies that might eat an anole so housed with them...).



Anyway, enjoy your reptiles. Uros are kewl, and beardies RULE!



-Joel
Woodland_reptiles

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