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Hi i have 3 9 week old malis hatchlings. I hatched them from the same clutch and they have always been together. There has always been a little agression between them. The two bigger ones would switch on and off of being the dominant one, and now the smallest one is the dominant one and one of the biger one's neck all of a sudden started to harden/ get scar tissue. The small dominant one is very mean he constantly attacks the other two. I am confused becaouse he is about 3 grams smaller than the other two and is a real mean guy towards them. They all keep on eating, infact they eat over 12 grams of food every day. They are only 14 grams each so that is a lot of food for thier size lol. I think i might have to separate them but i really wanted to keep them together so they would be a trio for life. What should i do. The small one bites the other ones on the neck, back and tail, and the guy being bitten spins on its back and runs away. This happens a lot while i am home. So should i separate all three of them, separate the one with a hardening neck, or separate the dominant one. Could the hardening neck be shedding skin? because it is shedding there. Or is it from being bitten. It is not bleeding or anything, it is just hard. I think they get that when they are being bitten. So that is why i might have to separate them. So what do you guys think.
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Mike
1.1.3 maliensis (Spike, Marshmellow, Brown, Green, Orange)
1.3 geyri (Fire, Flame, Sunset, Princess)
0.1 Pit Bull/German Shephard/ Lab/ ect. mix (Kodak) - looks like an over grown toco bell dog.

Thats very typical behaviour and in many cases you have to rauise babies seperately very soon.
Looks like you have to do this with your animals.
I would hurry, even babies cna conflict severe bites to each other and the stress will do the rest of the job.

Ci@o

Ingo

I am separating them, but i still want to keep two of them together. There are 3 of them, The bully, the nice guy, and the one that gets beaten up by the bully. Should i take out the bully or the one getting beaten up. At the momment i took out the bully and gave him a nice 30 gallon tank so he can be king. The hatchling that was getting attacked has a hard neck. Will this go away with time? I am puting neosporon on it just to be safe even though there are no visable cuts. The funy thing is the bully is 13 grams, the nice guy is 14 grams, and the guy getting beaten up is 16 grams. Also, i can see there pores very well, is that normal when they are this young. They are all about 4 inches long, is that normal for 9 week old hatchlings? They are nice and fat and now they are eating over 15 grams every day. So should i separate the beaten up guy or the bully who is picking on everyone. Now that i am almost posative i am keeping these guys can you help me come up with names. The mother's name is Marshmellow and the father's is Spike.
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Mike
1.1.3 maliensis (Spike, Marshmellow, Brown, Green, Orange)
1.3 geyri (Fire, Flame, Sunset, Princess)
0.1 Pit Bull/German Shephard/ Lab/ ect. mix (Kodak) - looks like an over grown toco bell dog.

Thats the usual way to go.
First seperate the miost dominatn specimens and wait, what happens. Sadly, in most cases the previous number two then turns into a very dominant animal. So in mayn cases, you have to seperate the whole group. But sometimes some babies can raised together even till adulthood.
Yours sound relatively big. I would be careful with ffeeding so much. The risk for MBD is much higher.
I just stratt to cool down my last unsold hatchling for brumation. To my expereince a -shortened- brumation period is very recommendable if you want your babies to grow up into healthy adults.

Happy herping

Ingo