My two mourning geckos, Skye and Cumbrae, are sharing a vivarium! They only spent 12 hours arguing and fighting until they sorted out their differences and now they seem to be quite content with their new housing arrangement. This is of course AFTER I bought a new vivarium for Cumbrae! Typical!
Millie & Fly the Border Collies
I had to split my gecko's for a while, spent a fortune on a new viv etc. Shadow was a miserable wreck without his beloved Amber and gradually I got them back together. He was biting her neck & pinning her down, he does it occasionally still but not as much as he was doing. The spare viv ended up being home to my cornsnake, who grew out of it a year later & needed a larger one.
Little tinkers all pets but where would we be without them :-)
Sounds like he was attempting to mate if he was grabbing her by the neck.
My corn snake now lives in a 4 foot vivarium as I decided his 3 foot vivarium was too small for him lol I think he enjoys having all that space though!
Couldn't be without all my little animals, I always love seeing their little faces when they decide to show themselves!
My cornsnake isn't fully grown yet, he is happy in his 3ft x 2ft viv at the moment, it's quite high so am having a shelf put in for him soon, he likes climbing around. Then he can have a larger one after that.
Shadow does mate aswell but this neck grabbing thing was bruising her & upsetting her & it seemed more aggressive than mating. She was constantling hiding from him (cramming herself into a tiny cave). It did them both good to have some space for a while though.
Good luck with your gecko's, are they the babies you recently had or the adults?
Skye is the mother of all the babies, she will be 4 years old in April, Cumbrae is her oldest daughter who will be a year old in Feburary. And then there is Ailsa who will hopefully join them when she is big enough!
Do you have to seperate hatchling mouning gecko's from the adults to prevent them eating the babies? It must be costing you a fortune in vivs & equipment.
Unknown said: Do you have to seperate hatchling mouning gecko's from the adults to prevent them eating the babies? It must be costing you a fortune in vivs & equipment.
It is a risk yes, and as any new hatchlings will be going on to new homes I'll have to take them out. Fortunately they are so tiny they are more than happy living in a cricket tub for a few months and I already have spare vivs around to use when needed. I may just set one up as a hatchling tank for any new ones that arrive lol They don't cost much in terms of equipment as they don't need the heating that most other reptiles do as they are happy at room temperature.