dominance

[Feurety]

OOOK hello all, befor i explain whats happening please keep in mind i have been trying to research alot but seem to get 50 different answers so i need experianced help please.

Recently we brought home 3 central bearded baby dragons ... they are roughly 4 weeks old.
since they have so far always been togeather we decided to keep all 3 togeather for now.
Everything has been great for the first 5 days but recently things have changed. 1 seems to be picking on the other 2 abit, constant chasing, headbutting, etc.
1 of the babys being picked on has refused to eat for the last 2 days (other 2 are eating strong) so my question is ...

Is this a sign of 1 dominating the other 2 or being so young is this just what they call playing? we are wondering if we should seperate the 1 dominating or the 1 not eating ... or should we just give them afew more days and watch closely ? ive heard from many people that keeping babies togeather is usually fine but to start seperating them at around 6 months old. any advice on whats going on ?
thanks all

 

[chickensnake]

I got 2 one month olds for chrissi, they do the exact same thing except they have isues with sharing the food aswell. I take the one that eats all the food/harasses the other one out (domanant one im guessing) and let the other less dominate one eat first, then put back the one i took out so it can have a feed too.

 

[Feurety]

bump ..

 

[Serpentes]

You need to address this straight away. Remove the dominant individual into a cage by itself, and your problem is solved. Bearded dragons are not communal lizards.

 

[JasonL]

You need to address this straight away. Remove the dominant individual into a cage by itself, and your problem is solved. Bearded dragons are not communal lizards.

agreed...... they don't need or want "friends" to keep them company, failure to address the problem will result in missing limbs / tails and maybe death.... Is is possible to raise them in small groups, but on average it's just a matter of time before something goes wrong.