Jumping beardies

[katie25]

This might sound like a really silly question but i have noticed over the last couple of weeks that one of my beardies has been jumping at his heat lamp and banging his head on it.
I have now lifted it so he cant reach it but wanted to know if there could be a reason why he is doing this?

 

[JasonL]

he can see himself in the reflection and is attacking itself

 

[katie25]

really, would never had guessed that. I actually have both my dragons side by side in the same enclosure, seperated by glass. even when i put them together they just lie on top of eachother but don't normally get aggressive. interesting...

 

[JasonL]

But the one in the reflextion is showing aggression when the attacker is......and not backing down like a "real" dragon would. Aggressive behaviour is constantly happening in tanks with multiple dragons, it's just humans don't see it or understand it. Sitting on top of each other is a form of dominance.

 

[katie25]

Oh ok, thats funny as the one that sits on the other one is heaps smaller. Pretty sure they are both males too.

Thanks Jason, you seem to always have the answers

 

[JasonL]

If you have that sort of size difference, Keep them seperated untill mature, they are certainly not friends, eventually the smaller one will loose a limb at best.

 

[katie25]

I noticed the size difference straight up so i seperated them when they were about 2 months old.
I built a huge enclosure so had no problems dividing the tank.