Housing Multiple Leopard Geckos In One Enclosure?

[MomokoCove]

I was told its okay if they all get along and they way to do this is by having one male usually and rest to be females. Or to just have only females. Is this true? Whats the general rule? Also I was told that Leopard Geckos need 10gal per adult and I wanted to know what you all think to because my cousin has 3 geckos in one 50 gallon who all get along. One boy and two girls. I wanted to get into keeping geckos and was really hoping to able to house multiple geckos together so I came here to look for answers.

 

[acpart]

Welcome to GF! You will get different answers from different people; there's no single way to do it. Here are the general areas of agreement and difference:
Sexes: no more than one male to an enclosure; a male with females will breed, so if you don't want to breed don't do it (yes, you can let them breed and destroy the eggs, but you're kind of wasting the female's use of her body resources and females that lay eggs are more at risk for complications); a group of females can be ok (see below) as long as they get along

Size of enclosure: When I started keeping leopard geckos about 14 years ago, the general wisdom was that a 10 gallon was enough for 1 leopard gecko. The prevailing wisdom now seems to be a 20 gallon long (30"x12"x12") minimum for a single gecko. Many people are comfortable putting 2 geckos in a 20 gallon. I generally keep 2 geckos in a 20 gallon, up to 3 geckos in either a 20 gallon with an additional 12"x12" second level or a 40 gallon (36"x18"x18"). At one time I had 4 geckos in the 40 gallon, but I wasn't comfortable with that.
Keeping geckos in groups: some people won't keep geckos in groups under any circumstance. Their reasoning is that things could go wrong without warning even after years of stability and that leopard geckos are naturally solitary. I do keep geckos together in small groups of up to 3. I watch them carefully and have extra caging to separate them if there's a problem. I have had to do this only a few times in quite a number of years. There's a good chance that people who feel strongly that geckos can be kept together in small groups and those who feel they should only be kept individually will have to agree to disagree.

Aliza