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My friend from work gave me a female today that's around a year old. I have my own female thats about the same age, but she has a decent size advantage on the new one. I tried putting them together, and it's fine for a while, then I hear them scrapping.

He gave her to me to try out and see if its going to work, and right now I'm just not sure. It's only been half a day they've been together...will my gecko get used to the newer gecko and stop the bullying? Or will I have to seperate them?

If it comes down to seperating, I'll probably just give her back, as I don't really have the money to set up another cage.

I have 3 hides in there right now, the cage is 20L.

Any advice would be appreciated, thanks

I hope it works out, she's really cute!
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0.1 Leopard Gecko

Try a cage separater (sp?) with uth on low on each end and keep the middle cool
...that's just my suggestion
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2.0 Physignathus cocincinus (Chinese Water Dragons)
0.1 Physignathus Lesueurii lesueurii (Australian Water Dragon)
1.1 Pogona vitticeps (Inland Bearded Dragon)
1.0 Hemitheconyx caudincinctus (African Fat-Tail Gecko)
0.5 Eublepharis macularius (Leopard Gecko {2 normals, 1 albino, 1 blizzard, and 1 jungle})

If you want it to work out you'll have to make sure they're the same size, a larger any kind of animal will bully and eat more than the smaller. The smaller one like you said they're fighting will eventually be inimidated and not eat.

temporarily buy a rubbermaid container and furnish it, and raise the smaller one till its approx the same size, if you can that is.

Then when re-introducing them, wash all the furnishings and move everything around so they start fresh with establishing territory. These are just suggestions they may not work.

Good luck