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I have 4 week old male and female beardies, is this age ok for them to be together, or should I have them seperated even at this young of age?
Thanks for all replies.

as a "General Rule" dragons should be seperated unless for breeding.

they are not "Herding" or "Pack" (as in wolf pack) animals.

for example: two young dragons need to eat *A LOT* and movement of a prey item motivates them to hunt it down and eat it. VERY OFTEN that instinct leads to a dragon missing a leg or a tail-end.

Or beeing found dead and half eaten.

it's true and I'm not trying to scare you.....

so why take a chance with your new children?

Nuff Said I hope.
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Thanks again, I thought that since they were only 4 weeks it might be different, no problem I will go seperate them now. Thanks a bunch.

No Problem, it's a common question and a common error.

the thing is that your dragons will need to grow in 5-9 months the equiv. to the growth a human does in about 16-18 years!!

Just try to picture a newborn human having to grow that fast!

and to do that they have to *EAT* like mad .... with good temps and light and the right food supply they will have 90% of the total adult size they will ever have by the end of 9 months (Give or take ymmv etc...)

and we know how a toddeler will try and taste *ANYTHING* and if it tatest ok they will try and eat it....

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I don't completely agree with the reply because I have a male and female pair that were raised together. True I didn't buy them I was given them and thats how they were raised before I got them but I can't seperate them without the other going nuts. My female freaked when I started calling her a girl until I explained to her that if she wanted to stay with her mate that she had to be a little girl. I know that sounds weird but animals have more intelligence than we give them credit for. They've never hurt each other and they share their food equally because I watch them eat. Then again I might just have a strange pair because I seem to attract the unusal animals.

I too know of several cases where dragons were raised housed together with no problems. It can, and does, happen. However, that it can happen is no guarantee that it will happen and the danger to the animals if one dominates the food supply or they eat bits of each other is real (Just ask my several tail-, foot- and toe-less rescues ) . The risks of one animal dominating the other or causing harm to each other through predator feeding responses is great. Since separating them can cause no harm, except perhaps to one's wallet, and the potential dangers of housing them together are known and fairly high, my choice for babies and juveniles is always separate caging. I do house two adult known females together with no problems.