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Hi, I own 1.1 standingi, who love each other, I recently put them in a 55 gallon tank and added two more females, the bigger of the two new females immediatly started attacking the smaller female, then my male went after the bigger new female trying to mate, the female just keeps running away, i thought for a hour or two there was peace, then the female i originally had with the male started attacking both females... all my tanks are pretty much full and when be spending a ton to power seperate cages for all of them. Will they eventually stop? is this normal, is there anything I can do about it?

thank you kevin

Althoght my experience with standingi is fairly limited I know for sure that day geckos are extremely territorial (this includes the females). Because of this, harem breeding with larger phelsuma species is quite difficult unless you have a very large enclosure (120 gallon ). I have heard many stories of females beating each other up so I doubt this will stop. Phelsumas usually pair up and thats that. You can chose to modify the tank to larger one or monitor your situation and hope the tension will disolve.

Thats normal.
Typically the dominant female stresses the others to death.
Only with very carefully sellected individuals you can keep more than 1 standingi female in the same tank.
Also a 55g is still small for a pair and introduction of additional individuals migth be impossible even for low agressivity females at that size.

Ciqo
Ingo