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I recently had a baby tokay hatch in the parent's cage, they hid that egg pretty well! Usually I remove the eggs to an incubator because I've been told that the father will eat the young. Junior is very small(less than an inch and a half long), and I didn't want to injure him, so I took Neil out of the enclosure. The next day I couldn't find Junior anywhere, I thought 1 of the females had eaten him. I put Neal back in, and within 1/2 hour, Junior was right next to him again! Neal is very protective of Junior, standing over him and barking when anyone gets too close. Have any other breeders experienced this, or do I have an unusually paternal tokay?

from what i heard and read i guess adult tokays are very protective of thier young,some people actually let there eggs incubate within the cage and let them hatch because they dont harm thier baby's,kinda cool in a way....

kali
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1.3 Leopard Gecko's
1.0 mali uromastyx
0.0.3 tokay's(adults unsexed)

I"m not surprised. My tokay has gotten pretty tame and was a wild captured specimen.

Again, your experience shatters the myth that tokays are mean and aggressive lizard. Mean only if they are afraid, and that's all, just to protect itself from what it sees as giants (and we would be compaired to their size).

In reality, tokays are sweet gentle lizards, and that's the truth.

JadeFox

Male tokay geckos will protect the young. Both parents will protect the eggs but from what I have read the females dont protect the hatched young as much as the males will. Ingo or Dakman would probably shed some light on this since they have experience in such matters.

It's OK to let the babies hatch out with the adults. The males will be protective of the eggs and babies. I see my hatchlings out with the males and females. Sometimes a female may eat another females eggs. This happened a few times to me but has stopped. I havent got this far yet with the babies that have hatched out with the adults but according to Ingo, when the babies get around 6 months the adult male will begin chasing around the male juvies. This is the time to seperate the males. Its really fun watching the little ones in with the big ones. I have a second setup all my earlier babies are in when I used to take them out right away.

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My posts and replies are my experiences only
1.2.10 Tokays
1.4.10 Leos(13 albino)
1.2.0 AFT's(amel male)
0.2.0 Stenodactylus Petrii(Dune Geckos)

My Gekko vittatus do the same thing. I house them in a 1.2 ratio. Glad to see I'm not the only one to have the opposing female do it. I had worried that I was lacking calcium. Do the adult tokay females have the calcium sacs like the whitelines?