Belle~Belinda said:
Ok...I've ditched the aviary idea! Now, without anyone telling me that I shouldn't be getting in to breeding at my age, would any body be able to give me ideas or pics of Space saving breeding setups??
Thanks in advance
Hey Belinda
I think for where you are living an avairy would be ideal. I am in Sydney and during summer I house my vitticeps with water dragons and bluetongues. I have had multiple males in together without incident, they all have plenty of logs to climb and hide in. During winter I just move my vitties inside until they they have bred and then incubate the eggs myself. In the case of one female that double clutched, I just put her in a nesting box, inside, with a peat/sand mix on a heat matt, let her lay her eggs and then put her back outside. I also have an indoor avairy that houses mountain dragons/various geckoes and have housed my angleheads with geckoes without incident. I do however keep my olives and maccies separated during the year and start putting them together around the end of april for the macs.
You just have to watch that when a female is due to lay/give birth you remove her from the avairy to save babies being eaten by other bigger lizards.
My ex has also housed sandies/bluetongues/beardies/cunninghams/water dragons and turtles together in a huge outdoor enclosure. And full sized adult lace monitors with eastern water dragons, have even seen the waters perched on top of the laceys head.
Although I would house the different dragons outside together, would not be wise to keep them together in smaller tanks as they don't have much of a chance to escape. Same goes for juvenile lizards with adult (exception being my mountain dragons), my daughters baby beardie was killed by an adult female.
good luck with whatever choice you make, good to see you researching before jumping right in
cheers
olivaceus