Becky,
You are getting some good advice here. In addition to what has already been said,
look for bite marks on the other geckos. There are several situations that can
occur: overaggressive male - I had this happen, he would miss their neck a lot of
time when mating and grab their middles and tear a lot of skin. Aggressive females
will also bite in "non-mating" areas which are below the "shoulders." Leopards
create a dominance heirarchy when they are put together. There is always a low
gecko on the totem pole, and sometimes in smaller set-ups this is very apparent
since the gex don't have that far to go and establish their own territories.
Brian Viets, one of the contributing authors of the Leopard Gecko Manual and a
respected Eublepharine gecko researcher, kept his leos in 1.2s. This seemed to
work best for maximum breeding and health in smaller set-ups. I tried that with my
programs here and it does work better than larger groups. I was doing 1.4s and
1.5s in sweaterbox set-ups before, I had much less health problems and didn't
always have that one skinny female in the 1.2s.
Just some thoughts!
Julie B.
http://www.geckoranch.com
GGA lifetime member
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 2/12/01 8:04:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>
> <<
> Is this common? Will one of them actually get hurt? Should we separate
> them? If the answer is to separate them, for how long?
>
> Thanks for everyone's help,
>
> Becky
> >>
> Hi-
> First the obvious- are you sure of the animals sexes?
> Second, you may have an aggressive female. These are commonly called "hot
> females"- eggs incubated for male that hatch out female.
>
> Or you could just have a case of two animals deciding the heirarchy of their
> group.
>
> Make sure they both have hidespots, so they don't fight over that.
> If the new female is not injured badly, I would let them settle it themselves.
> If they continue to fight or you see ripped skin or worse- a lost tail-
> separate them.
> I always remove the aggressor, that way I can try to reintroduce them in a
> month or so and the tables will be turned.
> Sometimes rearranging the tank works, as they all need to set new territory.
> Let us know what you do-
> Jason
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