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I am thinking about housing a pair of tokay geckos in a 30XHigh Gallon tank. Of course one would be male and the other female for territorial purposes. I was wondering if the problems would still occur even though I had a large enough tank and they were opposite sex. Would they bother eachother or leave eachother alone until breeding season? If you know anything about breeding tokay geckos from experience or if you have had them just let me know! Thanks for taking the time to read this!

Normally they will get along fine. There is always a exception but as long as their 2 females or male/female you should be ok. I've never had a problem yet keeping multiple Tokays together and different sizes at that. Just be sure not to put 2 adult males together.
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your tank is barely big enough for one. Aggression when breeding may arrise in such a small tank,

M.N
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Tokays can be kept in groups. Normally one male and several females will get along well. Sometimes even males, mostly brothers, get along well. I had two groups of 2,2 and 2,1 in two big (400 and 770 gallon) tanks which got along very well for many years.
But normally two males will fight till one is dead.
In smaller cages, many females do not tolerate their own sex and in small cages , males may dominate their females too much.... ending with a deadly stressed dying animal.
When I say small cages, I am talking about 50-80 gallon.
So to my experience, your cage is a very bad start.
I do use bigger cages for my 3 month old babies.
If you want to start with a single Tokay or a pair, do not go for anything smaller than 65 or 100g with a height of at least 4 ft.
Smaller cages are an endless torture to such agile lizards as Tokays.
Even though many specimens survive long in such setups and some even breed, its definitely NOT the way to go.
But your tank would be nice, for small arboreal gex.
Why don´t you go for Lepidodactylus, Cosymbotus, Ptychozoon or the like?
If you want big guys, you need big tanks.

Please take that serious.

Ci@o
Ingo

I got all of your responses and they are greatly appreciated. You gave me the species name but what I really need is their trade names so I can find the different species and caresheets. Thanks for the help!

So ask for Flying geckos (Ptychozoon), Mourning geckos (Lepidodactylus) and all kinds of house geckos (flat tailed house gecko= Cosymbotus platyurus).

Hope that helps

Ingo