some tokay questions

[large_cichlids]

okay i have some questions.if i have two females or two males in a 29 gallon would they be alright.Im asking this because i dont kno how to sex tokays,and if i end up with the same sex i wanna know if there will be trouble.also is 32g big for a tokay gecko.theres one for sale that weighs that much for 35 bucks.they have some more healthier but they are sold and weigh around 59g.

 

[KenyanSandBoa]

I would think with two males that tank would be a little small. You would probably be better off with a female and just put a lot of visual barriers in the tank so there is not territorial aggression.

I'm pretty sure you sex a tokay by looking for femoral pores on the rear legs, on the thigh. If it's a female, the pores will be large black/brown and raised...sometimes there is a waxy secretion as well. On a male, they would be much less visable and there would also be a bulge at the base of the tail that the female wouldn't have.

 

[Ophiuchus]

Didn't you ask this once before? Two males together are out of the question. You might be able to pull off a 1:1 or a 0:2 combo but you never know.

 

[walls]

Didn't you ask this once before?

yes

 

[large_cichlids]

well maybe i wanted to make sure since,i dident understand

 

[elevatethis]

Don't house male Tokays together. They will fight, one will end up injured or dead, and if it does survive, the submissive one is going to be so stressed out it probably won't eat or drink and will wither away slowly.

1.2 groups work well, though, so long as there's a lot of cover in the enclosure.

 

[Ophiuchus]

well maybe i wanted to make sure since,i dident understand

Not trying to berate you or anything, but what was so hard to understand? Practically everyone told you the same thing. Were you hoping people would say something different this time, making it okay? Personally, I think you need to concentrate on keeping one tokay alive before trying to tackle two simultaneously.

 

[large_cichlids]

uhhhhh no

 

[TheBloodyIrish]

Just stick with one for now. Herps are not like fish where they can stand each others. Even breeding pairs can easily be stressed out by each others and have their life span shorten. Just something to think about.

Remember in the wild, they have vast territory and most of the time, their only encounter with each others is during breeding time. Some species are different in that some of them live in colonies. Geckos are not colonial bunches.