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Does anyone house more than one species of uro together? I have a subadult mali (I believe female) and would like to get a subadult Niger. However, I AM NOT going to get another uro unless I can set up a suitable cage, and cage space at the house is very limited now a days!!! It would be great if I could house them together. Any thoughts???

I am no expert by far but most people would tell you that you should not house and mix of species. If I am not mistaken I believe most nigers are wild caught and therefore frobably have alot of parasites that could affect the mali. I could be wrong though.
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My male Mali shares with a baby Egyptian and a 22 year old Sudan plated lizard. They all do just fine. Everyone has a bed/hide and that seems to be the key. They all bask together even though there is more than one basking spot, it is most common to find them all piled together.

I have noticed the baby watches the older Mali when food items are offered and soon the baby pics up on good stuff to eat. All of these lizards are dog tame and enjoy interacting with me.

who is in the photo? not the baby egyptian is it? how little is the baby? you don't get worried that the mali will eat the baby egyptian? My former big mali used to eat pinkies... once in a while.. but she'd go after anything like a small beardie! yikes i'd be scared.

AWESOME photo! so cool, how did you get the baby egyptian tame? my baby egyptian is a TOTAL spazz case and FREAKS when he sees us and can't be picked up unless you hold him/her soo tight and he squirms so.. you know how it is.. How do I tame the little guy/girl?

thanks
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4.2 Bearded dragons (Lee,Stumpy,Blackie,Spazz,Lynn,Charlotte)
1 Egyptian Uromastyx (Niles)
(Papa Kunja and Uri have recently passed..we love you)

Thank you for your advice!

The big one is the Mali and the photo is a little older. The baby Egyptian is a bit larger now. Both are piglets as far as food goes but the Mali really carries heavy weight.

I look hard for tame uros. I have never had a 'spazz' that ever, ever got tame. They seem to either be born curious and tame or not. Some lizards I bought I ended up selling because they were not tame. I just wanted a couple of 'pet' quality uros, meaning hand tame. I could be wrong and maybe one can tame a uro with nervous behavior, I just have not been able to do it.

My big Mali rarely eats any animal protein, usually only insects and of all things, he likes breakfast sausage bits if they are dry. I normally put stuff out like that for the Sudan who is mostly a meat eater.

I am writing this looking at all three lizards, they are all under the same basking lamp together. The big Mali is pretty easy going, he puts up with the active baby Egyptian who always seems to be scurrying about looking for trouble.

yeah, um my last uro was a very tame female mali, and the baby uro i have now is the one I'm asking about... so Do I have ANY hope of taming him? Do you know anyone who has tamed a baby egyptian? I guess i could ask Doug dix if the egyptians calm down but i didn't wanna waste his time ya know...

I have awESOME pics of the little guy/gal? I will post as soon as i figure out how to use my digital camera.

any advice for taming the uro please help.. I just try to hold him as MUCH as possible and talk to him when he's in his cage.. but he RUNS and scratches at the sides NON stop he's very scared of us... poor baby Niles
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4.2 Bearded dragons (Lee,Stumpy,Blackie,Spazz,Lynn,Charlotte)
1 Egyptian Uromastyx (Niles)
(Papa Kunja and Uri have recently passed..we love you)

Thank you for your advice!