Hi all, I have kept reptiles for a number of years and have owned a female AFT for about four or five months. I just recently got a male AFT and had a question about how to introduce the two into the same cage. The male is a white striped and he is about seven and a half inches long, my female is a standard and is just shy of seven inches long whith regenerated tail. When I introduced them I put the male into the females cage as that was to be there permanent cage. For the first few hours he ignored her and went to a dry hide box and slept. Later that night when they were active (observing them with a red light) I noticed that anytime she came around him or viseversa he would get right at her face and begin to rattle his tail, slow at first and then extremely fast, after that he would hiss three to five short times and would bite her usualy along the nape of the neck or right behind her front legs. I would seperate them withen just a few seconds of this and eventualy had to seperate them into completly different cages. My question is is this normal? Is it just a dominancy thing, I did notice that my female was real submisive and would not try to fight, she would only hiss and try to get away when he'd bite her. Would it be beter to set up a tank for him and leave him by himself in there for a couple of days and then introduce the female into his cage, or should I set up a new tank and put both of them in it right away? I'm just wondering if me putting him into the females tank was the problem or something else. Sorry about the long post any help would be greatly appreciated.

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