Dennis,



As you may know alot will not recommend housing males and females together or multiple males together but we have done it sucessfully. When we were breeding the Jax a few year back we have our enclosure which was 8' tall, 6' wide, and 4.5' deep. We housed successfully and without any problems a group of 10.18 in that enclosure. We found that when housing them in large enclosures like that the males tended to combat each other and actually made them breed better. We had one male that had one of his rear legs was useless because when he was a baby it was bitten by another animal. Well even with that lame leg he was the dominant male and would flip the other males off branches in combat and then breed his females like mad. The main thing that we found about keeping multiple Jax together is placing them all in the enclosure at the same time. this way none of them are already established in that enclosure when you add the others. I would say you could keep a group like the size we did but would recommend to play it my watching them and seeing how they do.



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Rob Trenor

RK Reptiles

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