[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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.
Good Evening to all,
It has been a long time since I posted, but we are still experiencing
the same problems as above.
Prior to moving them, I had a hide box for each gecko and a log for
them to hide under.
My son assures me that we have two females and one male gecko. Poor
Andy (Patterless) is the male. He has always been a little smaller than the
two females. In February, he weighed 40 grams. I've been watching him for
several weeks and he didn't appear to be eating. He would just walk around
the cage with his head up in the air looking for something. I think he was
probably trying to talk to me and tell me to take him out and place him in
another cage.
It took me several weeks to do this, but I actually did do it. The
other night, I noticed that the newer of the three geckos, Lauren, was
actually biting Jackie (Patternless). Jackie is the other female that is
healthier than Andy, but now has bite marks on her. The bone is not
showing, but skin is missing. I found an old email message from Julie that
states to put Neosporin on the wounds. I'm going to do that after I get off
the computer.
I now have Andy and Jackie in a 10 gal tank and Lauren is in the 20
gal tank. As soon as I get the stool sample, we are going to switch them
and put Lauren in the 10 gal tank.
My husband took Andy to the Vets today -- we didn't have a stool
sample, but we will be keeping an eye out for that to have it tested. The
Vet gave him some oral medication to help him get his appetite back. He
stated he looked OK, but he definately has lost weight because now he is only
35 grams.
I just wanted you all to know that we were still here and lurking.
My son has also acquired a Chinese Water Dragon and a Yellow Throated
Plated Lizard. Our family is now 6 lizards.
