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He vs. she

Posted 03-27-2008 at 07:30 AM by tlh9162


Talk about your Mother Nature dilema! lol

I adopted my two water dragons in July of 2007. I was hoping to get a girl and a boy so I could have some babies down the road. Read all of the books I could get my hands on...wanted to be able to make good choices and take care of my dragons the right way. Did not know anyone with a dragon...so I relied on the pet store to help me alot. Had no idea that this website exsisted...just getting into the whole "computer surfing thing".

Anyways, Drago and Cassie were little, and they had plenty of room to run, climb and hide in their 4 ft. tank. From the names that I gave them, you can kinda guess as to what I thought their genders were. lol After about a month, Drago started getting "bossy" with Cassie. He would chase her from the basking light...even though they each had their own. Drago would also hog alot of the food...so I had to pull Cassie out and feed her in a spare tank that I kept around for cleaning time. Drago was going through a shedding a month but Cassie was very slow in growing and I was getting a little worried. The final straw was when Drago started keeping Cassie in the water pond all of the time. I came home from work and truely thought she was dead. Cassie was so cold and stiff. It took me about 30 minutes to warm her up in my hands, wrapping her in a bath towel and cradleing her like a baby to get her warm again. I bought another tank and put her in her own home. I thought they were a little young to be going through mating dominance...but what did I know?! I would rather not have babies than to lose Cassie to Dragos agressiveness. He even broke her little toe! Bully! Cassie has been going through a shedding every month since then and is growing nicely.

Now the catch! I just discovered that Drago is the female and Cassie is the male! Whoda thunk? It turns out that SHE was bullying HIM around! lol

In my computer/sewing room, I bring one of them in and let them run around. I would make them take turns cuz I did not want any fighting going on and one of them getting hurt. This was playtime...not self defense class. lol Well, yesterday I bought both of them in together to see what they would do. It turns out that Drago, "the bully" kept her distance and was the one running away from Cassie! lol Oh how the tides have turned! lol They got along pretty well...Cassie chased and Drago ran... No fighting at least...lol I am going to keep letting them "play" together under observation to see if they can be put back together in one habitat or not. Getting ready to make a bigger viv for them and, considering the size of it, I would like to have them together. The new viv construction starts this weekend. Measurements of the viv will be 6' x 6' x 3'.

Gonna take pictures of the construction process. Would love comments and suggestions!

Still hoping for babies...someday!

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Far too often we find out that our "male" is a female or vice versa. Reptiles, especially young ones are not easy to sex. It's just one of those things.

A word of advise, dominance issues never really go away. Letting them play together isn't getting them used to each other, or making them friends. As long as you are supervising them, they probably aren't doing much harm to each other aside from a little stress, but putting them back together is probably not going to be an option. They will settle back into dominant and submissive roles, and one may be bullied or stressed into not eating, or sickness.

I'd plan on keeping them apart, and only putting them together to mate if you are planning to breed them.

It would be great to see pictures of your viv.

Just a suggestion, not everyone comes to the blog section. You may want to post this on the water dragon forum. You'll get a lot more responses!

Welcome, by the way.
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Posted 03-27-2008 at 03:34 PM by Typhanie Typhanie is offline
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hey, and I'll try to answer any more questions you have. good luck. Be ready to build another enclosure, or you could add another 2 feet and if they get too stressed out, put in a divider they can't see through.
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Posted 03-27-2008 at 08:50 PM by schlegelbagel schlegelbagel is offline
 
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