You can usually keep quite a few females together provided that their is ample room, food, number of hides, and no fighting or bulling going on. Another importent not is the size. They should all be roughly the same size as to control the bullying of any of the smaller geckos. So after moving them togther you will want to keep an eye on them. Make sure none seem scared of another, no one is chasing anyone, their health is staying that same, fecal mater is staying consistent with what it was like before, and you are feeding the same abount of crickets daily as before. One other area to watch is the tail and weight. If any tails are getting thinner or any of their weights are dropping or stopped increasinf if they are young and growing, then you know that that one should be seperated till it is larger then you could try again in the future. Another thing to watch for is bitting. If this occures they nee seperating and their is a possibility that you have two or more males. This has happened to me, where three females out of my colony turned out to be males. So I ended up with 4 males in a enclosure. This did not show up till breeding time came around and they were conditioned for breeding. I still have a hard time telling some of them males apart. Put they are males becouse I have gravid females from them after some selective breeding. Anyways it can easily be done to mistaken males as females and females as males as sometimes bulges and pores do not show very well and pores show a little more then normal for a female. As far as caging goes you want atleast 10 gal per leo as a general rule of thumb. Well I hope this helps. Alot of it is based on research and alot is based on expeirence. Good luck, Mario www.geckonetwork.com/geckos/
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 12:15 PM Subject: [Gecko] Combining Female Leos > Greetings Gecko Gang! > I currently have three tanks with healthy (no parasites) adult female leos as follows: > 20gal. long - 1 "regular" leo > 20gal. long - 1 "regular" leo, 1 leucistic leo > 10gal. - 1 "regular leo > I would like to know if it would be OK to combine all 4 of these females together into one 20gal. long tank. Reason being that I am moving soon and would like to decrease the number of tanks that I have. I have 4 other geckos living in separate tanks which cannot be combined due to species and sex. > If they can be combined, what is the best method to minimize any friction between them? > Many thanks! > Tobey > > ########################################################################### > THE GLOBAL GECKO ASSOCIATION LISTSERV > WebSite: www.gekkota.com Archive: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > The GGA takes no responsibility for the contents of these postings. > ########################################################################### >
