Should I worry about fights during feeding time? One piggy is the trouble-maker

[Boa'sUnlimited]

So, I have a commune of 3 females (a Red Stripe and 2 Bold Stripe het Tremps) - but the problem is that the Red Stripe and the 2nd Bold are very... docile, even with food. But the 3rd is very food aggressive, and even went so far as to steal a worm from the Red Stripes mouth as I was feeding them an hour ago -.- amusing, but I felt bad (both were fine and didn't bite each other)

So I had to "compensate" the Red Stripe with 2 worms, that I watched go down to make sure they didn't get stolen.

I don't want to have to remove that bold stripe female because they all get along otherwise, but she's such a pig that the others literally can't eat in peace without me hoarding over them and making sure everyone gets a fair meal xD

Suggestions? Really, any advice on how to resolve this without separating them would be awesome!.. or maybe I have to watch them every time, which I don't mind.

And to note: I have other groups of Leo's that don't have this issue, so it's pretty odd.

 

[Neon Aurora]

You could separate them when they eat. Maybe remove the third and feed her in a different container while the other two more docile ones eat.

 

[DrCarrotTail]

My thought would be the two are docile because they know the aggressive one is dominant and don't want to piss her off. Similar situations and behaviors have occurred with every pair or group I've kept together and I worry too much so I decided to keep all of my geckos individually. If you have the time to watch them eat and/or separate them every time you feed you might be able to make it work but it would make me very nervous that a fight might happen at another time when I'm not there to prevent it.

 

[Boa'sUnlimited]

You could separate them when they eat. Maybe remove the third and feed her in a different container while the other two more docile ones eat.

This is probably what I'll do, because they only seem to have issues at feeding time

My thought would be the two are docile because they know the aggressive one is dominant and don't want to piss her off. Similar situations and behaviors have occurred with every pair or group I've kept together and I worry too much so I decided to keep all of my geckos individually. If you have the time to watch them eat and/or separate them every time you feed you might be able to make it work but it would make me very nervous that a fight might happen at another time when I'm not there to prevent it.

I had been thinking of housing all of them individually but I really like the cohab idea and it would make breeding easier (1 male to 3 females instead of 1 male to 1 female, then switch him to another ect) - I'm just going to have to check them all over pretty well each day (as I already do) and keep watching very closely for signs of fighting (outside of the small food scraps), thankfully I am in my reptile room almost 24/7 though so it might work, otherwise I'd just separate them completely if I really thought it was going to fail.

Thanks for the help/suggestions! I'll report back with any weird things that happen/if they need to be separated eventually, because I feel it would be valuable info to anyone else thinking of trying the same thing.

 

[stager]

My thought would be the two are docile because they know the aggressive one is dominant and don't want to piss her off. Similar situations and behaviors have occurred with every pair or group I've kept together and I worry too much so I decided to keep all of my geckos individually. If you have the time to watch them eat and/or separate them every time you feed you might be able to make it work but it would make me very nervous that a fight might happen at another time when I'm not there to prevent it.

I agree

 

[Boa'sUnlimited]

I agree

I began separating the dominant female during feeding times and she has really chilled out. So I'll keep going with this and if things go back to being shaky I'll move her altogether