Mario:
Thank you for your valuable input. I have decided to keep them at 2/tank to avoid any
problems.
Take care,
Tobey
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In a message dated Thu, 28 Feb 2002 11:19:16 AM Eastern Standard Time, "Mario Stinso"
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> 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/
>
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