Adding a 3 month Male to a viv with a 6 month female

[daygo30]

I have a 6 month old female beardie and on Sunday i brought a 3 month old Male to add to her enclosure, they seem to be getting on fine, the female keeps nodding her head and waving her arm. The shop told me that keeping a male and a female in the same viv will be fine, i am worried that they will keep breeding a laying eggs too early through the females life (they have already started showing signs of mating as th male keeps getting on the females back and biting her neck), should they be kept in seperate vivs then put together to breed as and when they are old enough.
I am also considering getting another female that is 4 months old,
Any advice is appreciated
Many thanks

[Faith]

There have been a few people on the forums that have put young males in with older females that are still to young to breed and they have had very young gravid females
I would honestly keep them apart until they are both of a good breeding age and size

Sorry cant comment any further as we dont keep beardies

[Crownan]

Originally Posted by daygo30

I have a 6 month old female beardie and on Sunday i brought a 3 month old Male to add to her enclosure, they seem to be getting on fine, the female keeps nodding her head and waving her arm. The shop told me that keeping a male and a female in the same viv will be fine, i am worried that they will keep breeding a laying eggs too early through the females life (they have already started showing signs of mating as th male keeps getting on the females back and biting her neck), should they be kept in seperate vivs then put together to breed as and when they are old enough.
I am also considering getting another female that is 4 months old,
Any advice is appreciated
Many thanks

Yes. Breeding can occur at a very young age and can be very detrimental to the females health.

[groovy chick]

Really you should have quarinteened (sp) the male before he went in with your female. I would seperate as they will mate

[daisyleo]

As the others have said yes I would split them also, my ADULT pair live together ok year round, but not everyone is so lucky.
If the male begins to pester the female too much she can become stressed and stop eating, this mixed with laying upto three clutches a season can quickly drain the female of the energy she needs to survive.
Get the male out, get him a viv sorted, once they are old and big enough to breed re-think your situation then.
If you get another female and add her in then add the male back you are looking at twice as many clutches of eggs, so my female laid 23 eggs a clutch(which isn't the biggest clutch I have heard of) 3 times a season=69 babies if they all hatch successfully, 2 females=138 babies a season, can you find loving homes for all of them??

[xXFooFooLaFluffXx]

is there not a great difference in size between the two? you need to make sure there isnt as the bigger one could bully or attack, n the bigger one is likely to get more food.

i know you are sayin that they get on but i know of someone who had 2 together of differing sizes n the bigger one killed the smaller one, not through agression though playing with it n tossin it about

just be careful

[Kimmy173]

I was going to mention the size difference also. Yes, seperate them because they are too young to mate, if you get the female I'm pretty sure they could live together as they grow older? Just definitely not a male and female because early mating can be so harmful - sometimes even fatal.