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Hey guys I'm new to the forums and I have a few questions for you guys to answer for me. I have three leopard geckos one male patternless, and two female leos, one his Bell Albino and the other one is Hi- yellow and part lavender. I made my own rack so if I did plan to breed these guys I would have the space for the offspring but so far the breeding has been a failure,What I did is I cooled them for couple weeks then I raised the temperature gradually and started feeding again and then introduced them the first time with the female lavender wendy would find the male instead of the male finding her and bite down on his tail as if she was the male and the male would run away from her, I am 100% sure that I sexed all three leopard geckos correctly the females are the proper and age and weight too. The second try was with Lily the Bell Albino and this time it was weird also the male Chuck wasn't waving his tail as he was with Wendy and Lily would of let him do his thing this went on for hours. Can somebody please tell me what I'm doing wrong or what I need to change to get me leos to breed. Thanks, Josh

There are different reasons for this behavior you have them sexed incorrectly, if the male is too small the female might fight him off, hot females (females that are incubated at 90 degrees) ussually don't bred and are aggressive, maybe you haven't left them together long enough. I would leave them together for a minimum of 72 hours but a week or more would be better. hope this helps

Ok I will wait for my male to get bigger and then try them later and put them together for a while should I handle them together a lot and for putting them together should I put the female in the males tank a couple times a week for a few hours so they can get use to each other?

In my opinion, your best bet would to be house all three of your leos together for around one week. The breeding process is tedious and very rarely seen live, so I would recommend leaving them alone. If the male knows he has more than one mate to choose from he will try his best to pair up with at least one female, hopefully both. I'm not sure where you're located, but here in southern California it's hot out and all my leos are active, eating like champs, and ready to breed. You can be in the same position if you do things right. Sorry if that sounds negative at all, just trying to help though!

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-Patrick

Ok I will put them together for a week but what if one of the leos get stressed out because the male is overbreeding or someone loses a tail or hurt?