Domination

[Cheaton]

What are some of the signs of your leos playing dominance games? One laying atop the other is one I believe? Any insight?

 

[acpart]

Other signs could be 1 gecko losing weight, being chased away from the food bowl, or having unexplained bites or scratches (I guess they really wouldn't be unexplained). I sold a pair of clutchmates to my doctor's office. They had been housed in a fairly small space with me and did fine. They were housed in a 40 gallon at the office but one started losing weight and had scratch marks. I had to take one of them back and re-sell. Now the scratched up one is living there alone and is doing great.

Aliza

 

[Cheaton]

Based on percantages, how often would you guess this is a problem. I do not think I will have an issue, but I do like to be prepared As far as we could tell they're both female.

 

[GeckoJunkie]

For the first time I have finally witnessed one female bullying one of the other females. It amazed me as they have been together all throough breeding season and I havent had a seconds worth of a problem outta them, now all of a sudden one just picks on the other. Oh and yes as soon as I saw this I seperated them. These two are the first ones I have had a problem out of. I keep roughly aorund 45 adult geckos and most of them are kept in small groups. This is speaking completely about females.

 

[MichaelJ]

the laying on eachother is the one of the first signs.. the one with it's head on top of the other is the dominant one and should be watched closely. I had a pair we kept together for about a year and out of nowhere the larger of the two was losing weight..

then we separated them and she's a house once again..

we keep all of ours separated at all times (aside from breeding of course)