>>The only safe and healthy way to do it is to have a breeding colony of one male and two or three females. This way the males attention is divided amoung the females. If you do this however, you need lots of space and also you must be aware of the specific care for a breeding group of beardies vs. just having one, and also the process of having many babies, or at least working with the moms to be through the egg laying process and then freezing the eggs. I would say that unless you are really interested in breeding lots of babies that its not worth it.



I agree... I house a trio of dragons together, but I take certain precautions such as feeding them seperately and providing two basking spots. Unless you give special consideration and attention to each animal, this CANNOT be done. By the way, it seems as if everyone here thinks that the male will continue to breed and breed with the female(s)... This is generally not the case, once the female is gravid, she stops being receptive, and the male stops attempting to mate with her. The only problem you could really run into in that regard is if the female is too young/small to breed and gets eggbound or something.

-Drew
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0.1 Indonesian blue tongue skink - Sarah

1.0 reverse oketee corn snake - Bernard

1.0 ball python - Patrick

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