can I breed my male/female african fat tailed gecko if....

[DeadIrishD]

my african fattailed gecko seems to be pretty healthy, but when I compare its size to most african fattailed geckos, it seems to be short (length wise.) but is not skinny by any means...

also can I see some pictures how to sex them?

 

[JohnN]

its fairly easy to sex fat tails when they are alittle old, the males will have large bugles and pores that is in a V shape, females do not.

I will post a pic of my males under side later today for you.

how old are yours btw?

 

[DeadIrishD]

mines a few years old.

 

[JohnN]

sorry for the fuzzy pic....

the first step of breeding is figuring what sex of animal you have, then every thing else comes, which I'm sure other members here will help you out.

hope I helped you figure what sex yours is.

 

[Nathan Hall]

Male: note the hemipenal bulges and pre-anal pores

Female

 

[DeadIrishD]

mine is a male, and belive it or not is sharing the tank with a tokay gecko, has been for a while now, and still nothing bad has happend.

 

[Anubis77]

NEVER share tanks. all kinds of problems will start. parasites are a big issue. the conditions aren't right for either gecko. tokays need a lot of moisture but if fat tails get a lot theyll get respiratory diseases. and fat tails need a lot of room to move and tokays need a lot of vertical room to climb.

sometimes its hard to see the pores. on mine i had to look really close to see them. but the hemipenel bulges were clear.

 

[ReptileMan27]

mine is a male, and belive it or not is sharing the tank with a tokay gecko, has been for a while now, and still nothing bad has happend.

Mixing species is a never a good idea and causes stress on the animals and a number of health problems that will lead to death of one or both of the animals. I would seprate them for their safety.

 

[JBReptiles]

see i think other wise...if you have animals from the same area then you can put them together...i keep my gargoyle and crested in a big 3ftLX2ftTX2ftD and they do fine mixing species isnt always ok ..some might get along great some might not..i now it isnt good to mix always bc of parasites...but mine arnt stressed at all...they even sleep together ..well thats what i think.

 

[ReptileMan27]

Thats good you have been lucky because most are not,I lost animals from mixing species but that was when I was new to the hobby years ago but will never do it again now that I know. Im not saying your geckos are stressed but if they are its usaully not something you are going to notice.