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My daughter now has 6 leopard geckos (2 females are quite handable - they were handled before we got them - 2 males we're working on, and 2 females that are quite afraid of us). I'm looking into new housing for them, and am wondering what is the best way to set them up. Is it best to house them separately, or 2 cages with 1 male and 2 females each? Will how we house them have any effect on how easily they hand tame?
Also, one "group" of these geckos have never been placed together before - will that have an effect?
Thanks, just want to do what's right for them.

If you want to breed two 20 gallon tanks would work very well for the trios. If you don't want to breed, the males will each need their own tank, but the girls can be housed together in a 20.

A great way to get leos used to handling is to try feeding them with forceps (I used to do it by hand until my big male decided my finger made a bigger target). Getting used to eating off forceps gets them used to hands in their tank. They then associate hands with good things like food and handling isn't such a big deal.

I've never noticed housing having any effect on how readily a gecko adapts to handling. Those that had a lot of handfeeding as babies (typically the runts who were stuborn feeders) grow into much more sociable leos than those that I left to "fend for themselves".

-Alice

Quarantine geckos that haven't been kept together for a few months to watch over them, and get fecals done to be extra sure they're not carrying anything.

Make sure your females are at least a year old and of breeding size before you keep them with a male, and always keep males separate.
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