| RE: MY LOSS!!!!!!
Firstly i would separate them. Me ex made the mistake of having three together and after about 3 months of age they had started to fight. One female attacked the other two causing horrific injuries to the smaller one which was a male and she bit off the tail of the other female. I took in that female but this larger one even bit her own tail off. In the end the little male died and this aggressive female as always played up at the site of another dragon. My one doesn't waste her breath and only misbehaves by jumping into the box of crickets.
Also, change the UV bulb every six months as the bulbs lose their UV capacity after 6 months or so. I learnt the hard way of course.............i was giving calicum etc and the bulb was 9 months old.......this caused a slight kink in my Forest Dragons tail due to not being able to absorb the calcium powder.......AND one more thing that alot of books don't mention AVOID MEALWORMS WITH JUVENILE BEARDEDS.I have never used mealworms since i lost my Pygmy Beardeds. Everything was going sweet and then all of a sudden they were throwing themselves on their back and squeezing their back legs together. Both died. Then when we got the 3 Central Beardeds everything was hunky dory and then similar symptoms again. I went through every book i could find and in the end the littlest cheapest book i bought mentioned not to feed mealworms to young. My vet later confirmed this by saying that the hardshell of the worm can cause impaction in the stomach or that the head of the worm is not crushed as babies tend to scoff and swallow. The head can actually latch onto the wall of the lizards stomach and start eating it's way out causing a very painful death.
Unfortunately trial and error cost me.
Simone.
| 
