Please make sure your dragons have separate enclosures, and can't even see one another - this will ensure BOTH dragons get everything they need, with minimal stress involved. This behaviour will stress out the little one (which, I presume, is the one doing all the hiding?) to the point the little one WILL NOT thrive. Correct? The bigger one will be the dominant one - first up to the basking site, first in for the food, first in for the hides. I could just about guarantee one will be bigger than the other, even though they're the same age. The most important is that you have TWO dragons, irrespective of age, in the same enclosure. Okay, with this post, there are a couple of "issues" going on here. the most colourful, cleanest markings and most handleable. My guy was a fantastic outgoing lizard without a hide, he was the most outstanding of the bunch. but in our captive breeding just about all hatchies make it regardless of their ability to adapt and survive. Not so many per clutch would make it in the wild. I think in the wild such guys would have perished, but being captive we are able to keep them alive regardless of their bizarre quirks. I put this down to survival of the fittest. If you want to use a hide, get a fake plant that he can partially hide under but still be seen. It does get smelly when used with beardies but I used to use litter box sanitiser on it (because of the deodorizing element) and leave it in the sun for a couple of days, rotating two pieces. dont leave loose substrate in with this little guy, buy the fake grass from bunnings, I love this stuff. He eventually became accustomed to captive life and was fine, I could put the hides back in, but I still never put full hides in, just half hides or fake plants. He would eat and bask and was happy and active without hides, the second a hide was put back in he would not come out. He wouldn't bask and refused food when he was like this. I had a gorgeous beardie who for a long time would constantly bury himself or sit in the hide all day.
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