Hi people!

My wife and I were talking about our iguana Pixel and about if iguanas
can live with other reptiles such as bearded dragons, chameleons etc
I tend to think they are solitary creatures whereas she tends to think
other larger reptiles would be fine with them.
We are getting a 6x6x3 vivarium for him in the next few months and
were thinking of getting another lizard man to "keep him company".

Is this a silly idea?

James

You cannot mix animals from different habitats: put a desert lizard in with
a tropical rainforest one, and one or both suffer.

Tropical rainforest chammies (not all chammie species live in the same type
of habitat) match tropical rainforest iguanas in environmental needs, but
temperamentally they do not. Igs express dominance by stepping on and
laying on other igs and any other species they live with. While another
iguana the same size as your iguana may withstand such treatment, a
relatively delicate chameleon, smaller, more easily stressed, will not.
Ditto anoles, swifts and other lizards, and frogs, even if you have species
that in the wild live in the same areas as green iguanas.

Please read my ICFS article and the others relating to iguana behavior, etc.
Igs are not solitary animals. YOU are their social group in captivity.

A 6x6 enclosure is not going to be big enough for one adult-sized iguana,
let alone two. My ICFS goes into space needs, as do several other articles
at my site.