Switching Tanks

[shawn119]

Next month I'm going to get a 20 gallon long. Right now i have a 10 gallon with 2 leopard geckos, Shawn and Spots. Spots is 5 inches and Shawn is 4 1/2 inches. I have all the supplies ready and I wonder if they would be OK with that. Is there any problems that can happen like a decrease of eating or aggressive behavior toward each other. They are doing fine right now averaging 5-6 crickets every other night. They are active at night and don't mind being handled twice a week.

 

[ajveachster]

If you are housing them together in the 10, and moving them to the 20 I don't expect you to have behavior changes toward each other. If you have had them separate, and are just putting them together for the first time, you may have some issues. This is especially true if they are both males. No matter what, expect them to take some time to get used to their new surroundings. They may not want to eat too much the first few days. Whenever we have moved anybody to a new home we don't even bother feeding them the first night. They are stressed enough that they don't want to eat, and it only stresses them out more to be fishing out the uneaten crickets.

 

[shawn119]

thanks