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okay im not sure if there mating or fighting lol i rescude 2 adult bearded dragons from a friend who didnt have time to take care of them i have them in a 55 gal tank when i got them i was told they were a male and female iv had them about a day and gary(male) will jump off his log run over to lizzie(female)and bite her on the neck all the sites i whent to said they do that when mating but there also supposed to shake? witch they dont do and garys beard gets real dark are they mating or fighting if there fighting i plan to seperate them

I would first confirm what sexes you have. Were they cagemates before?

http://www.dachiu.com/sexing.html

yes they were and he said they never fought before or eny thing
i have a video of them biting but i dont tno how to post them on here email me and ill send it to you theplug93@yahoo.com

here the link to my video of them biting
http://youtube.com/watch?v=awsQ51LzJFg

That's not mating. Just be sure that the one dragon is female and he doesn't do it too often.

he dont do it to often maybe once or twice a day and i cheacked the web site you gave me and one is female she is on my shoulder right now shes real mellow and the other is a male he is active i let him out about a hr ago and he took off across my shoulder and on to the couch and was gone he stoped aftr he looked at evry spot in the room lol

You should post it on youtube and then post the address so others can look at it too. My home email is down right now (comcast is supposedly coming tonight) and I don't want to use my company email for videos.

The males show dominance to females by biting them on the back of the head. The female will generally flail her arms during this. Then he lets go satisfied in the knowledge that she knows who's boss.

If he mates her, after he bites her head he will tilt her body so that he can align his vent with hers. Mating is very short and lasts usually only a minute at most.

so i shouldnt seperate them right now or should i and did they look healthy? and my male assuming hes male becuse of beard turning black donsent have the two bumps above the vent he has nothing there not even 1?

Males and females can both turn their beards black. Generally the males get darker and turn black from the tip of their mouth down and onto their chest. Females often don't blacken their beards all the way to the tip or onto their chest. I find it inconclusive to use tail or head dimensions, or pores for sexing.

You could have 2 females. There is often false mating where one of the females takes the dominant role.

o ok ill check that out how do you tell with pores and head deminsions

It's worthless info. Some say males have bigger pores and wider heads but it is inconclusive at best. Some males have sleek heads that they say are a female trait and some females have a wide head which some say is a male trait. The femoral pores are about the same in young and middle age dragons. Males secrete a waxy substance from theirs that is used to mark their territory.

okay so how would i tell becuse if there the same sex i wanna seperate them

the vidio looks more like a fight then mating, if they didnt fight before it may be from the stress of moving, id keep an eye one it and if it continues separate them, beardies are pretty solitary in the wild from what ive been told, i used to house many together and i think now that most of mine are solo they are less stressed, only 2 are still together and they stay on oppisite sides of the tank most of the time.
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hanging out under heat lights burns up my brain cells!!

i dont know if they did it before or not but if the fighting continues im seperating them my post under hey bdvlr above this one has a vidio i took today

Looks like a dominance sort of fighting to me. I would separate them regardless, as a 55gal tank is barely big enough for a single bearded dragon, much less two.
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