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I have to blizzard females that have been housed together for a couple of weeks. I just noticed today as was helping one of the females get off a bad shed , that she had bite marks on her nose.they dont look infected or even open wounds where they could possibly be infected. I checked the other female and she has the same thing. Both are under a year old. Both are the same size,both are fed equal amounts and enough food. And there are plenty of hides. I dont think there will be any infections, Im just curious as to why??

one if not both could be a "hot" female. that is they are aggressive and bully their cagemates. this is caused by incubating in very high temps, which is normally used to produce males, yet the sex came out female. a "hot" female, correct me if i'm wrong, cannot be bred because she cannot produce eggs [i'm not sure if i remember correctly]. i suggest separating the two to stop any more possible incidents from occuring.

hide etc. in the tank.

Did you completely sterilize and clean the cage and rearrange the cage furniture before combining them? If not the gecko that was there first may be displaying aggressive territorialism.

I don't keep blizzards but I have heard they tend to be more aggressive and mean than other morphs in general.

I do recall seeing one case from a poster on this forium of a female blizzard who actually killed her female cagemate. I would try cleaning the enclosure and rearranging cage furniture, if you still see signs of aggression I would house them seperately.
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I was wondreing if you put one in before the other? Well if you did that might be the reason they are fighting because the one in there first thinks its all theres and dosn't want another one in there. I know ths because mine did the same thing and i put them both in a new tank and they didn't fight anymore.

I did clean the cage out before combineing them. The one that was originally in the cage by her self is the one being more territorial. So maybe it all needs another cleaning. Thanks for all the replies.