Leos housed with other speacies

[Ogre]

Ok please read on before flaming. I have been thoroughly devouring the book "The Leopard Gecko Manual" and im looking to start a 75-100 gallon show tank in my living room, i want to set it up as a naturalistic display. Now in the Book it says that you can successfully house Leo's with Collared lizards, South African flat-lizards, or girdle tailed lizards. I was wondering if anyone here has tried any of these other species and if so what outcomes did you see. I'm trying to read up as much as i can on this before i attempt it, as i would not want to have my Leo's or the other lizards be harmed if its avoidable. Thanks in advance for any information that you can provide, and for referance in the book its on page 26, in the section "other animals" in the "Naturalistic Vivarium Design".

 

[acpart]

I will confess that I haven't had personal experience with this. My (inexperienced) thoughts are as follows: given the size of an adult collared lizard, I can't believe the leos won't become collared lizard food. My beardie's behavior toward the leos he encounters behind glass make me sure that if he ever gets to them they will become beardie food. I know that there are people who do keep multi-species and one key is a really large enclosure, but I wouldn't recommend it if this is your first experience keeping reptiles. Gecko Time did a "Prose and Controversies" article about multi species enclosures. If you go to geckotime.com/archives you can look up the original article (Jan. 2013 I think) and the comments that were published the next month.

Aliza

 

[Ogre]

Thanx for the reply, I am not inexperienced when it comes to reptiles, i have raised Beardies, various snake species, including venomous species. I also have experience with larger animals as well, im just a Leo Novice. So before i attempt anything i like to bend the ear of the masses first.

 

[DoubleZ]

My thoughts on it are to look at your reasoning for wanting a multi species enclosure versus the possible negative outcome. Animals ant advocate for themselves so it's our job as their keepers to do the best we can for them. Is putting multiple species together doing the best possible thing for the animals? What is coming first, your wants or the animals needs?

 

[mörten]

Housing different species tpgether is NOT a good idea! Living in Sweden where the knowledge on reptiles is quite thin, or rather non existent, I have heard horrible stories of how other reptiles housed together with geckos have teared apart the poor geckos :main_no:

Please, whatever you do, do not house them together! It will only turn out to be a tragic