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I pulled the plug on Fiesty. She just was too aggressive. She went out of her way to head butt and chase after poor Daisy. All Daisy wanted was out and kept scratching at the door. As much as I didnt want to choose who I would try to house with Syd, it seems Daisy will be a better, calmer and SAFER cage mate for Syd. Hopefully they will work out? I dont know. I feel horrible. Fiesty so dark, irritated and keeps looking at the girls cage. But when shes in the cage with the girls shes evil! What do I do?

Also I want to clarify that I am not trying to house them togther to make room for more dragons! I dont want anymore dragons. I cant afford anymore. I am out of room and need to make room. No I dont want to risk their health to do it, but MANY other people house multiple females together and they do fine. All greetings couldnt have been smooth for them. I am really running out of ideas and I think I made the wrong decision in keeping some of syds babies. I was thinking with my heart and not my head as usual.

Cheri, I know you told me before, but I was wondering where you lived again? Not address or anything like that, just a state or whatever.

Thanks for all those trying to help. If yuo have any more ideas please let me know.

Also I do have 2 baby females, they wont be big enough for cagemates for at least another 8 months or more though. Thats if I can keep them.

Thanks, Lindsay

If the other two are doing good, leave them together.

I would still try and have them all together at out of tank time, such as basking in natural sun, swimming in pools.

That and their feeding routine is the only thing we did different. They are fed crickets in tubs individually, we have just started after them being together for almost a year, letting them have their superworms in their enclosure.

You may not be able to change Fiesty, but she may learn to want to be in their company and she only can if she is "nice".

Most people we know that do house several together, experience one or two that it does not work with. Sandy is housed alone since she seems to have this obsession that she has to hog everything, but she really likes being with the others now in the pool and seems to lick Sherbert alot and stays at her side. We are going to try move Sherbert in with her towards brumation time and see how it goes. We know that Sandy and Myst can never be together, both are to dominate.

Good luck, you can always test adapting them for short periods and then try again.

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Agreed time on the floor and in the tub is the best. Then they are in no one beardies territory. They may still fight, but you can seperate them easier if they do. With time they learn to accept each other. I think most females do. I can move my 4 adult girls around in whatever way i want. But try to keep them the same for cross cotamination reasons and the such.
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Derek Affonce
DeKeAff Exotics
dekeaffexotics.com

I got two females that I house together for the past few months. Everything was fine till the smaller one shed. Now the older/bigger one is starting to pick on her, but not all the time. They where just fine before and nothing has changed except the fact that one shed.

They are both almost the same size, just one a little fatter. Not sure if it might be a gravid thing, but I pulled the smaller one from the same tank for a while to let them think it out. You are not the only one going through this

Good luck...
Steve