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How do your beardies react to the presence of other reptiles? My male dragon completely ignored my Russian Tortoise. He'd casually glance at him and not care at all. He doesn't seem to show much interest in the leopard gecko either, when we hold it up to the glass. I haven't tried introducing them in the open, I don't want a dead gecko.

However, show him my baby black rat snake and he gets very pissed off. He puffs up, flattens himself, tilts to one side, turns his beard black, and opens his mouth. Very defensive behavior. I guess in Australia, bearded dragons have to deal with highly venemous snakes all the time. He's a lot bigger than my little snake but he's still scared of it. Just wait till she gets 6 feet long! Then he'll be pissing his pants, lol.

He also ignores my cats, but he'll make a mad dash for cover if he spots a soaring vulture or airplane. And sometimes ceiling fans spook him too. Survival instinct from Australia, I suppose.

well baby Daigh is insane, he goes right for my one adults enclosure, hes fixated with her, shes 18 inches, hes 7 and a half, hes always going for her glass, hes not allowed in that part of the room anymore as Gobi dives at the glass at him thinking hes a snack, doesnt phase him tho. Carrick loves the cat, he will crawl over and lay on her, shes too sleepy to notice. The adults are fine with the parrots but Daigh is leary of them, carrick does give the cockatoo looks tho when the 'too gets going, he can get really loud. i have found they pay much more attention to each other then they pay attention to any of the other animals in the house, i guess they understand each others language and the others are speaking in something they dont understand so there is no interest, none of them show fear of each other, they just dont seem to care that the other is there.

>>How do your beardies react to the presence of other reptiles? My male dragon completely ignored my Russian Tortoise. He'd casually glance at him and not care at all. He doesn't seem to show much interest in the leopard gecko either, when we hold it up to the glass. I haven't tried introducing them in the open, I don't want a dead gecko.
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>>However, show him my baby black rat snake and he gets very pissed off. He puffs up, flattens himself, tilts to one side, turns his beard black, and opens his mouth. Very defensive behavior. I guess in Australia, bearded dragons have to deal with highly venemous snakes all the time. He's a lot bigger than my little snake but he's still scared of it. Just wait till she gets 6 feet long! Then he'll be pissing his pants, lol.
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>>He also ignores my cats, but he'll make a mad dash for cover if he spots a soaring vulture or airplane. And sometimes ceiling fans spook him too. Survival instinct from Australia, I suppose.
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my dragons are scared of my parrot, really scared, but thats just the above predator instinct, and Ralph is REALLY curious of my leopard gecko, i have the cage on the ground, its glass, and Ralph jumps outta his cage and runs over the leopard gecko cage, and just starts tryin to get in, maybe trying to eat him. He bobbs at my veiled chameleon when he sees him (which is rarely) he totally ignores my box turtles.

The thing with the snakes, its a natural instinct. In australia, there are common browns (venomous), and plenty other venomous and nonvenomous species of snake that prey on small to medium lizards and birds and small mammals, and bearded dragons sometimes are their prey when they come in contact with each other. A while ago, i saw a show special on discovery that showed a nonvenomous snake trying to eat a bearded dragon, but the dragon, which was a subadult, gave a fiesty fight, biting it and flaring the beard, and when the head was in the mouth the dragon shook its head violently around, beating its spikes in the inside of the neck, and the snake released and went away. The beardie only had a small cut on its back, and it ran away. I was like, GOO BEARDIE lol....well im rambling, later
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I find it hard to imagine that anything but a really huge snake could swallow a full grown angry beardie that is all flattened out. Beardies are NOT an animal I would want to swallow whole, lol. Those spikes must hurt going down.

There are some pretty good sized lizard eating pythons in Australia. Womas, carpets, that sort of thing. I think they would be quite big for a medium sized elapid. Most of the beardie's defensive system seems to be geared toward scaring off snakes. On the other hand, I bet beardies eat small and baby snakes in the wild. There are also a lot of cats in Australia, but unfortunately beardies probably don't know to be scared of them yet.

spike doesn't like anybody but himself and me...he wants to eat the leopard geckos. their cages are on the floor and everytime he see them he runs to the glass and tries to munch away. he hates the new babies two.. when i'm holding sajah or dojo he flips out.. puffs up, hisses, tries to attack through the glass... he just looks pissed (and he is definitely not trying to breed rather trying to kill).. and even though the water dragons and the beardie haven't met face to face he hates them too.. i usually feed my water dragons out of their tanks and he always runs to the glass and puffs up.. trying to look menacing.. poor guy it doesn't work..hehehe..oh and he likes the dogs.. he thinks they are a very comfy pillows..and all my dogs do is sniff him.. but i'm not comfortable with him all over my 5 dogs.. don't quite trust field trail dogs..something about them being bred to hunt.
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2.2 chinese water dragons
1.2 bearded dragons
0.2.1 leopard geckos
1 african clawed frog, 1 african dwarf frog, 1 california newt
1.4 english setters
1.1 breeder mice (cheech and chong)
tons of fish

My adult female is fascinated by the aquatic turtles that are sometimes in the same room. She'll turn her head this way and that to check them out. She used to be afraid of my adult iguana, doing an arm wave whenever I walked past with the iguana. Now, she attacks the iguana! She once climbed down a couch and up a flight of stairs to jump on the iguana's back and bite her on the back of the neck. Normally the two wouldn't be free in the same room, but there were enough people to keep an eye on everything, and we were curious as to what the dragon was up to when she jumped down from the couch. We never would have thought she'd go after an adult iguana.

Katrina

my beardie has mixed reactions to my corn snake, he seems curious most of the time, the corns viv is on the floor and he runs over and claws at the glass and watches the snake, one time he has tried to eat the snake through the glass, another time the snake dropped down from above him and i think this scared him, he flattened out and hissed before lunging at it.

he gets jealous when im seeing to my other pets. i got a praying mantis the other day and he simply see's that as food, desprately trying to get through the glass to eat it lol :-D

Mine chase the dog around and ignore the snakes.
The get spooked by birds flying over-head when they are in the garden though.