I know how you feel. I had purchased 4 juvenile crested geckos and during the summer it looked like all were going to be females, so I bought an adult male to I would have a breeding group. Barely a month after I bought the new male, one of my younger juvenile developed his hemipenial bulges. But I am not disappointed, as he is a nice reddish dalmantion and my new male is a chocolate dalmation harliquinn. With two unrelated males, I can breed the three females with one or the other male to get a variety of offspring potentials.

Though, since you wanted a colony of three females and one male, you could have two colonies of one male and one female and when you have offspring, you can keep the nice ones and breed the females to the unrelated male. Or, you can buy some new females to put the younger male in with later. Lots of things you can do with two males, especially two nice looking males.

As for putting both males in the tank with the two other females...though the cage may be big enough, there really isn't enough females to ensure the males do not wind up fighting over them. A bigger cage with more females may work better, but then you wouldn't know which male was the father which means, breeding the offspring to any of your existing males could cause inbreeding problems (though probably not in the first generation anyway). KNowing exactly which male bred which female, does make it easier to track bloodlines especialy if you are aiming for a particular color/pattern.
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PHLdyPayne

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