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hey i am getting a female beardie and she has a bit of an attitude problem. she gets mad when you get her out of the cage but when you got her in your hands she is fine. so my question is will she be okay to go with bob or is it a wiat and see thing. i know i have to quarintine her, but after that.

ken
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The next time the shuttle lands, lets all get dressed up in ape suits and charge at the astronaughts yelling and ranting. That way they can try to figure out where they took a wrong turn.

There is no way anyone can tell you if she'll get along with him or not. After her quarantine is over try putting them together and closely supervising, prepared to seperate if things are too tense.

If you are talking about housing them together permanently you should be very careful, it doesn't always work out. Sometimes males and females can co-habitate with few problems, but sometimes the male will dominate and mate with her too much and stress her out. Or they may just not get along at all, if she's bigger than him and she doesn't like his advances she can hurt him. In the wild if a female needs some time away from a male, she can just leave. In a cage she is forced to put up with him. Sometimes this is ok, sometimes it stresses her, and sometimes they may fight. You need to be prepared to give her a private enclosure in case they fight, or if she becomes stressed.... especially if she becomes gravid. She will need to be in tip-top shape to produce healthy eggs and maintain good weight.

Good luck
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2.0 bearded dragons (Ocho / Domo-kun)
0.1 kingsnake (Rio)
1.0 ferret (Playstation)
1.0 cat (Wally)
0.1 dog (Tima)

with housing them together is the female producing clutch after clutch of eggs, weakening her to the point of exhaustion, stress, death.
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well actually they will only be together till i get her a cage built, iun a couple of weeks max. well if she does get knocked up and i do the whole thing with the eggs and all, when they hacth how long do i have to wait to sell them?
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The next time the shuttle lands, lets all get dressed up in ape suits and charge at the astronaughts yelling and ranting. That way they can try to figure out where they took a wrong turn.

6 weeks is ideal. You want to give them a good head start on life before sending them out into the world. But you may end up waiting a lot longer than that. I know even a few experienced and well known breeders who can't always get rid of all their babies.

If this is your first time breeding dragons, consider all the time, space, and money involved. To help prevent against tail and toe nips, you'll need to seperate the hatchlings to about 5 per rearing bin, so you may need quite a few of those. Then you'll need enough heat and UV for all of them, and thousands and thousands of crickets. Then if you get all that done, you may only sell half and then you're stuck raising the rest until you get them homes, and who knows how long it may take. It's very expesive and time consuming, and you might be lucky just to break even. It's certainly not a "cross that bridge when we get to it" kind of thing, because it could get you in far over your head.

If you put her in with him for a couple of weeks chances are fairly good she will get pregnant. If they get along ok, and you have the full intention of breeding them anyways, then go for it. If you don't really know and aren't prepared to drop a few hundred bucks and devote half of your spare time to raising baby lizards, you'd be better off keeping them apart.
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2.0 bearded dragons (Ocho / Domo-kun)
0.1 kingsnake (Rio)
1.0 ferret (Playstation)
1.0 cat (Wally)
0.1 dog (Tima)