Do I need to keep male and female seprately?

DeadIrishD

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Do I need to keep male and females seprately before I breed them, or if I have a few females in the same tank, will that be alright?

what information can you tell me about breeding them? as theres not a caresheet here about AFT's?
 

geckoman8980

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ive been breeding fatties for a little while and have produced some babies of my own..Generally i seperate the male when i start to cool them...WHich is for about 1.5 months. After that i put the male in the cage with my 3 females...They almost breed Immediatly. After i know that they have bred, i put him back in his tank until they have laid their clutches. Then about 1 week later after they are all fattened up i breed them again. and keep repeating this process. I breed each female about 4 times a year. If you do it too much their lifespan is shortned, and your geckoes will be constatnly stressed out. I start my cooling in october-november....then they usually breed right off the bat.

Your second question..Yes it is okay to keep numerous females together...Im keeping about 3 females in a 75 gallon tank. :mrgreen: any more questions...lemme know!
 

Brian

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Ooops I misread the question.

Instead try taking the existing food. Rub it on B. Dubia. Alternatively you might try killing one crushing it into a paste and rubbing it on the geckos lips or the old prey item..
 

PreditorNprey

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Eww I'm like a "girl" when it comes to squishing prey items.

Whats the chances of him biting me when I do this? more so than when I just hold him, or do they not seem to be bothered by this? of course chances are it all depends on the gecko itself...
 

PreditorNprey

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braining pinks I can handle for some reason..... maybe its just the fact that their roaches, although better in every sence than crickets... im still not used to them.
 
oh, i wont touch a roach. those things are yucky. and they move. however, i do love my millepede. hes a cute bug. IM VERY PARTICULAR ABOUT MY BUGS! hahaha.
 
for fun? or for a productive purpose? i brain only when im introducing pinks as a food item to animals. if they take it without, id much rather just not. the "manly man" thing was sarcastic btw
 
oh, and back on topic. i find that sometimes males will stop eating while in with females for breedings. so i put them together, but if they start to loose any weight i seperate them back out for a while.
 

PreditorNprey

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bleeding, incase you don't know I'm DeadIrishD from RTB (though I dont go there anymore.) you and your s.o (I think I may have talked to him, I dunno for sure though.) kick ass on so many levels (mainly because you two are both knowledgeable, but not uptight and actually have a SOH) anyhow...

so I maybe able to keep a trio in the future, (1.2 obviously) that may not lead to too many problems, or chances are when their not breeding, they'll need to be seperated?
 
thanks, hes not much of the forum geek that i am, so much as i do this, and then i ask him questions, and hell dictate responses to me. and what is SOH? yea, and rtb sucks for people into anything other then boas.

when theyre not breeding you can still keep the females together, as long as they are both adults and of adiquate size. the only tip that i tell everyone about keeping animals together, is make sure they are well fed, or else they will nip at eachother. if youre going to get them younger and raise them up, i would suggest keeping the sexes seperate untill they are quite large, because it does take a toll on them. i would suggest to you, just to keep an eye on them, and use your best judgement, if theyre not eating, loosing weight, blah blah blah, seperate them, if theyre doing fine, leave them be. for the life of me, i cant find ANYONE or anyWHERE that can give me a flat number of what is ideal breeding weight for fat tails. theyre just not dealt with as extensively as leopard geckos or even cresteds.

as for additional breeding tips, ill have to wait for him to get home. hes the one who deals with the eublepharids [besides the gonis] and im the rhacodactylus geek.
 

PreditorNprey

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SOH means sense of humor :)

Yeah, I'll use my best judgement when it comes to them, and I've also been researching breeding for quite a while, it's just a PITA for the most part as theres ALOT of information out there, and it's all pretty much diffrent info.
 

Brian

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I keep a trio together and it's not a problem although I do end up hand feeding them most of their food. For the life of me I can't get them to stop laying eggs in the hottest part of the tank even if I switch what the hottest place is. Only once did a female not lay in the hottest place.
 

PreditorNprey

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kick ass, I can't wait until I get a trio :)

I'd love to produce some amels in the future, although the hardest thing I can tell will happen, is to get rid of the offspring, not b.c I can't sell them, just b.c I'm over protective to who they would go too.
 
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