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I just purchased a beautiful new Hypo Tang male leo, and tried to introduce him to my female normal, who is about 1 time smaller than him but not small enough to eat (over a year old). She came out of her hide box and approached him slowly and licked his face, he licked hers and they went their separate ways for a moment. A second later she went back to the male and they stood head to tail, tail to head, upright and alert. The female wiggled the tip of her tail at him and he wiggled his back, so I removed her as as far as I understand tail-wagging is a bad sign.. Has this happened to anyone else? Should I wait until she gets bigger before I put her in with him?

i just did the exact same thing, put in a new hypo tang with my normal. my normal did the tail wiggleat first, but within minutes the geckos seemed used to each other. now they hang around each other almost all the time, and have had no scuffles

You need to quarantine, in a seperate room if possible, and at least in a seperate enclosure, any new animals for a MINIMUM of six weeks and preferably for three months before introducing any animals.

Female tail waving means they feel threatened.

She's in a separate tank in another room, yes. Thanks.

I think you missed the point; the reason for quarantining your geckos is so they do not pass dangerous infections and/or parasites to each other. By introduction your new gecko for mating, even if it were in a sterile cage, you may have exposed your other gecko to a new ‘bug’. The idea is, if your new gecko doesn’t get sick within 3 months of you having it, then there is a much better change that they don’t carry anything harmful. I know it’s hard to wait some times, but it in the gecko’s best interest.

np

Yeah, I understood the 'why' when the last post mentioned quarantine. Thanks.