I'm not trying to start a fight here - but I feel its very irrespsonsible to say its okay to house different sized lizards (especially dragons) together, or to breed at a young age. Just because it has been done, or can be done, does not mean it should be done.



Breeding should not be allowed before 18 months of age - there are reports of higher incidences of males unable to retract hemipenes if they are too young, and females below 18 months or 400g are too small to safely develop the eggs.



As for different sized dragon together, every dragon sees other dragons as comepetition. IF there is too much of a size difference, the smaller dragon will almost certainly suffer from dominance and stress, and the potential for injury (even death) from attacks from the larger dragon.
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Ross



0.2 Bearded Dragons (1 Yellow, 1 Chris Allen/Sandfire)

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• Housing Beardies together - showofhands, Sun Nov 21 12:34:00 2004
• RE: Housing Beardies together - rjharper, Sun Nov 21 12:43:12 2004
• RE: Housing Beardies together - lovemybeardies, Sun Nov 21 18:22:48 2004
• No no no no - absolutely not - rjharper, Sun Nov 21 22:16:56 2004