Housing for 2. Questions on what to do.

[CProctor]

I have became comfortable enough with my two geckos now, that I feel I could place them together in the same tank and make room for the new male I am looking to purchase.

I currently have two female geckos and they are roughly the same size, just an age difference really. I have them placed in two separate 20L tanks. I was looking to get a 30 gallon tank to better suit them to put all the hides in. would that be necessary? or do I actually need to have double the hides or will they be fine to share some hides? because the 20L tanks I have pretty much have no room to add anything else to them.

So would a bigger tank help out in the situation? and also the new male I'm looking to purchase, I was told I could place him in the tank with the two females and he would be fine also? What would be my best solution? Should I not get the male and keep my geckos separated?

 

[acpart]

Many people will advocate keeping all geckos separately. I think some geckos can do OK in small groups under certain circumstances. Here's what I recommend if you decide to try housing them together:
--Choose your cage and, if it's previously been occupied by one of the females, clean it thoroughly and rearrange the "Furniture".
I keep 1.2 geckos in a 20 long with a 12"x12" second level. The "ground floor" has a water dish, poop tile, humid hide/lay box and 2 hides. The second level which is made from two 12" tiles sandwiching a mini-UTH on PVC "legs" has a third hide. That's 3 dry hides and 1 humid hide for 3 geckos. Nearly everyone does OK and if someone doesn't, he or she gets separated (I have to do this very rarely)

--once you have a tank ready, put the 2 females in and watch them. It isn't unusual for one or both to wave her tail slowly at first. If they attack each other you'll have to separate them. Likewise if one starts losing weight, isn't eating or starts looking scratched up.

--if you get a male you will need to keep it away from the females for at least a month's quarantine. After that, if you put the male with the females they will breed. if you're not prepared for this , don't do it.

I hope this is helpful.

Aliza

 

[CProctor]

Ok. I will try to house them together and see how it goes for a while. and I do believe I'm not ready to have babies yet lol so I will hold of on that. Do you think you could post a picture of your set up to let me see what yours looks like?