Can you keep adult crested gecko with a juvenile crested gecko?

Answer 1

I would strongly recomend that you don't put baby leopard geckos in with adults until they are about 10-12 months of age, depending on the size of your baby. You want to make sure that your baby is able to grow with out stress of possible bullying from more dominant adult geckos. Also depending on the size of your adult gecko it could mistake your baby gecko as food. It isn't uncommon for adult geckos to eat pinkies (baby mice) so it isn't unlikely your adult could attempt to eat or strike at the baby. If your baby is a female it is not safe to introduce her to sexually mature males before she is sexually mature. An early pregnancy is not healty for your new gecko. Leopard geckos mature at about 10-12 months. Males will fight each other once they reach sexual maturity so they should never be put in the cage with an adult male no matter what their age or size.

The role I live by is if the baby is grown enough to eat large super worms and pinkies it should be safe to live with any adult leopard geckos.

Answer 2

No, you cant you are supposed to keep them separate because when the bigger ones get hungry they will eat smaller animals such as babies. Also, baby geckos (Juvenile geckos) require carpet because they cannot fully digest the calcium derived from the sand. The older geckos around six months are allowed to use sand as their natural environment.

Answer 3

You should generally not, because crested geckos can sometimes be cannibalistic and eat their young. You should put them in a separate cage for a while, and even after that you should keep them in a separate enclosure.

Answer 4

Never put two males together because one will be dominant.

Male crested geckos will fight for rights to breed, as well as territory. There is also chances that the bigger adult will pick on or bully the smaller of the two, due to such big size difference.

Answer 5

no, the parent will probably eat they babies, and if you have 2 baby boys, they will hurt or kill each other.

for example i have a crested gecko that doesn't have a tail because he and his brother got into a fight when they were young, but thy are both happy and healthy, but missing tails

Answer 6

Do not do this please. You're crested gecko is one that can stress easily towards other animals alot more than human beings. Cresteds are solitary being native to an iscolated island they are extremely solitary, not even seeing others of it's kind until mating season.

On another note, Goldies (the G. Ulikovskii praticuallarily) are very skidish. They will show aggression if threatened, while cresteds would turn elsewhere. the Goldies are vibrant and quick, they require temperatures of about 80-90F. While the cresteds should never go above 75-80F.

Answer 7

It is never safe to put smaller geckos with much larger geckos. Usually what happens when putting small animals in with larger animals is the adult picks on the smaller gecko and hogs all the food, so the smaller gecko becomes injured and unhealthy. I have also heard of adult geckos eaten babies before; really anything that's small enough that it can fit inside the geckos mouth it will try to eat, so I would not take the risk if I were you.

Answer 8

Cresties have a tendancy to be territorial and there are risks of injury if a smaller gecko is housed with a larger one. Females of the same size can be housed together and during breeding season, pairs are co-existing with one another.

Answer 9

Crested geckos are very docile, but by placing another animal 1/5 it's weight is almost promoting it to be eaten. A smaller critter keeper works perfect for hatching's. A 10Gallon works perfect for 2-6 month.