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

[luckylukey]

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.

My enclosure is pvc and made with a mesh panel at the back of the top of the enclosure. As for UVB I’m going to be using an Arcadia 14% T5 that’s about 3 or 4ft atop the mesh, hopefully that won’t be an issue. I’ll be adding as much climbing opportunity as I can for 2ft of height.

I’ve decided I’m just going to use the entire enclosure to house one beardie, less hassle and it just feels way safer that way. I was planning to keep one in the 6x2x2 at first when I purchased it but I live at home and my mom keeps hassling me about how she thinks it’s unnecessary to have all that space for one lizard and that it’s also too expensive for just one haha(even tho it’s not her space or money).

Guess I’m just going to have to show her a picture of a beardie eating it’s roommate or one that’s had it’s tail chewed off to make her understand that they don’t want buddies. It’s a sad reality, but yeah… don’t want to put my beardie in any danger.

Thanks(again) for all the info, I really do appreciate it!