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I have only been keeping beardies for a short period,and many have been keeping reptiles long before me but still i will kick in with my 2cents. So i originally had my Tsume and Hige together both we're the same exact size around 6" at first. Firth month went really good, second month i noticed the mounting behavior and saw some arm waving from hige. I ignored it and about a few weeks later i come home and see blood on my thermometer and the tip of hige tail is pretty much gone, i pretty much knew what happen then, i also noticed that tsume was twice the size of poor hige! I feed both the same amount so this was weird.

But i went out and brought another perch and a smaller wattage bulb and gave them two seperate basking spots, and i have to say it worked like a charm, i did this for about a week and already hige tail was healing and he started getting some size for him.

But now they are both in there own 30gallon long tanks and doing great. Tsume is 10inches and Hige is 8" would be 10 but he lost the tip of his tail.

All in all i would say it's really scary coming home to a bloody lizard with a nipped tail. I wouldn't risk it! I learned my lesson the hard way!

<blockquote data-quote="Strange_Evil" data-source="post: 92899" data-attributes="member: 1971">I have only been keeping beardies for a short period,and many have been keeping reptiles long before me but still i will kick in with my 2cents. So i originally had my Tsume and Hige together both we're the same exact size around 6&quot; at first. Firth month went really good, second month i noticed the mounting behavior and saw some arm waving from hige. I ignored it and about a few weeks later i come home and see blood on my thermometer and the tip of hige tail is pretty much gone, i pretty much knew what happen then, i also noticed that tsume was twice the size of poor hige! I feed both the same amount so this was weird. But i went out and brought another perch and a smaller wattage bulb and gave them two seperate basking spots, and i have to say it worked like a charm, i did this for about a week and already hige tail was healing and he started getting some size for him.But now they are both in there own 30gallon long tanks and doing great. Tsume is 10inches and Hige is 8&quot; would be 10 but he lost the tip of his tail. All in all i would say it's really scary coming home to a bloody lizard with a nipped tail. I wouldn't risk it! I learned my lesson the hard way!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Strange_Evil, post: 92899, member: 1971"] I have only been keeping beardies for a short period,and many have been keeping reptiles long before me but still i will kick in with my 2cents. So i originally had my Tsume and Hige together both we're the same exact size around 6" at first. Firth month went really good, second month i noticed the mounting behavior and saw some arm waving from hige. I ignored it and about a few weeks later i come home and see blood on my thermometer and the tip of hige tail is pretty much gone, i pretty much knew what happen then, i also noticed that tsume was twice the size of poor hige! I feed both the same amount so this was weird. But i went out and brought another perch and a smaller wattage bulb and gave them two seperate basking spots, and i have to say it worked like a charm, i did this for about a week and already hige tail was healing and he started getting some size for him. But now they are both in there own 30gallon long tanks and doing great. Tsume is 10inches and Hige is 8" would be 10 but he lost the tip of his tail. All in all i would say it's really scary coming home to a bloody lizard with a nipped tail. I wouldn't risk it! I learned my lesson the hard way! [/QUOTE]

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