Can you keep two female bearded dragons in the same enclosure?

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I've only kept one bearded dragon- a young adult male rescue- but I think 3 x 2 x 2 is okay for young dragons, & too small for an adult. 2' height might be too much, also, because the UVB lights they require get less effective as the distance increases. Just a heads up...

I know that breeders or retailers often have the babies kept together but just so you know, some of them usually end up being unsalable (or dead) because some dragons will chew off the feet or tails of other dragons. I don't know what age that stops, but dragons are predators first, & buddies second.

One other thought: I seem to recall seeing photos of groups of beardies raised by the author* outside in a warm climate in HUGE enclosed areas (with bales of hay to bask on- if that gives you a sense of the space). *May I recommend: General Care & Maintenance of Bearded Dragons, by Phillippe de Vosjoli & Robert Mailloux (You can buy this used for a couple bucks online)

There may be other, more recent, books out there too, that I'm not personally aware of (it's been years since I had the dragon), but doing more research never hurts. And I don't have my copy of this any longer, as I had no plans for another dragon & figured someone else needed this more than my bookshelf did.

I apologize for my short and typo filled response earlier, I was trying to get you some info before walking out the door. Just to piggy-back off what Boger said, she is correct (as if I need to say that ever lol) in her concern over the height of the enclosure and your method of providing UVB. For me, I used MVBs for heat and some UVB, but my main source was a tub UVB fixture that hung inside the enclosure. The good thing about the height is you can put together some great climbing opportunities for your dragon, but also means you’ll need a stronger UVB bulb to make sure your animals are getting what they need.

Remember that tube UVBs work better than coils, and that anything you put between the bulb and the animal reduces the amount of UVB that your dragons are getting. Meaning if you sit your light on top of a mesh lid, they’ll get less than if you hung the fixture inside the enclosure. As a disclaimer, I’m talking strictly about UVB fixtures, I prefer and it’s safter to put any heating elements outside the enclosure on top of a mesh lid, or at a minimum inside a fixture cage so your animal can’t burn itself on a hot bulb.

You do see a lot of breeders and a lot of stores keeping multiple hatchlings and very young dragons together, and you’ll see them laying on top of each other under basking lamps. This looks cute to us, but that’s them displaying dominance behaviors, stealing the heat and UVB from the dragons underneath them. That behavior never really stops, and only becomes more violent as they get bigger. As I said before, dragons do most of their growing the first year of their life, so you really don’t want two competing over anything, whether that be light, heat, food, or space.