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I was wondering if there is any other species of gecko that could be housed with a tokay? Any experience with this or info would be great. THaNks

I housed an adult tokay with an adult skunk gecko for almost a year with no problem. They used to hang out together and they never had any confrontations. They are now housed in seperate tanks due to future breeding attempts. Good luck.

In big tanks, tokays are normally non agressive against cagemates.
Anyhow, I would not try to mix tokays with other species in tanks smaller than 200g.
I do keep a pair of tokay together with a pair of G. vittatus since quite some time without any interference. I also have good experiences with mixing of tokays with Phelsuma mad. grandis or G. ulikovskii.
There are not many more gecko species of apt size and climatic need which would fit.
Maybe cresteds or Gehyra vorax may be possible. But since the latter can be quite agressive, I´d be careful. With Homopholis species it normally does not work, due to the high agressivity of these.

Any mixing needs a very close eye and lots of space as well as thoroughly deparasited animals. Do not forget that.

Ci@o

Ingo

Don't do it! Tokays can be aggressive (especially males) and will fight for territory. How would you feel if you were locked up with a bully with very sharp teeth, and there's nowhere to run to?

There is also an increased risk of cross contamination of parasitical diseases and other illnesses.

Madame JadeFox

Of course, there is thruth in that.
But for the sake of the tokays reputation I would like to repeat that tokays are among the least agressive gecko species I ever experienced. This holds as true for intraspecific as for interspecific agression.
Only in tiny cages they seem to act like the monsters so many people think they are.
Give them space and you will experience a totally different animal.

Ci@o
Ingo

yeah everybody tells me how mean tokays are, but mine is very sweet. She likes to be handfed, jumps on me, and has never attempted to bite me. In fact she will turn dark if I do not give her a daily quota of attention. she did that once and after giving her some attention she was back to her normal bluish-and-orange colours.

Tokays DO need lots of running around room, especially when more than one is involved.

Madame JadeFox