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I will be getting a 3ft. ig. Can I free roam him with a 2 ft. ig in the same room?or can i have one free roam and one in a cage. PLease post quick!!!

>>I will be getting a 3ft. ig. Can I free roam him with a 2 ft. ig in the same room?or can i have one free roam and one in a cage. PLease post quick!!!

It depends on how they get along and how you manage the introductions. If you are not building a huge new enclosure that will be large enough for two full grown adult iguanas, then you are going to have a problem. If you try to keep one enclosed where it can see the free-roaming one, you are going to have problems.

If you aren't prepared to house them completely separately, out of line-of-sight (and smell) of one another, each on in an enclosure large enough for a full grown adult (at minimum, 9ft wide x 3 ft deep x 6 ft tall), you are going to have a problem. In this case, it is best to not get the second iguana.

Please read the following articles at my site before you bring the second one home:

Iguana Age and Expected Size

Basic Cage Design Problems

Introducing and Housing Multiple Green Iguanas

Lizard Tough Guys

Signs of Illness & Stress

Change-Related Stress

Bottom line: No matter how well they seem to get along when you first introduce them, there are no guarantees that they will remain compatible or peaceful. Iguanas have an excellent sense of smell and can smell on you and your clothing the chemical signatures of any other iguanas you've held or handled, so even keeping them totally segregated in different rooms may not be enough to reduce stress and displaced aggression.

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Melissk
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