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ok my 1st question is can you house a leopard gecko and an african fat-tail gecko together?? And if somehow someone has tried this what if you put a male leopard and a female fat-tail together (or other way around) would they try to mate or just go there seperate ways? Because I know the males are very cautious about there grounds, ha. Ok one more ... If it isn't alright to house the 2 different geckos together it wouldn't even be ok if they were both female?? I'm curious because I already have a male leo (full grown) and I want to get both female fat-tail and leopard gecko, and I was thinking it would be so easy if the 2 females were able stay in the same tank, of course reasonable size. Thank you so much everyone is sooo helpful!

People have housed them together before but I dont think it is a good idea to house species together at all. Aft's need higher humidity throughout the cage, where as leos only need it in the humid hide. The leos could get a RI if the humidity is too high. If a leo and an aft bred you would get infertile eggs. I dont think that any fertile eggs have been produced from that pairing.
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Not a good idea, not at all...these two species have different environmental requirements. Housing two species with the same environmental requirements together is iffy, but can be done if it's done wisely in a properly sized enclosure with parasite and disease free animals of around the same size and passive temperments, and lots of hiding spaces (such as one of the large rainforest vivs that may have frogs, fish, and reptiles).

Housing two species with different requirements together should never be done. One or both of them will suffer from sub-optimal conditions if you try to compromise, or match the requirements of only one species.