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well, i have a 40 gallon tank. 4 logs in it, largest is 6 inches thick, and smallest is 3 inch thick. i have 2 pothos vines that are growing fast and already apears well planted. i have a fernlike plant as well. the soil is 100% black organic soil. and i have the soil covered with browned oak leaves from the back yard (i cooked the leaves in oven to kill bacteria and eggs) and a screen lid with 2 fishtank lights on top.

in the day, sunlight makes a very natural basking spot on a 4-5 inch wide section on a log.

i currently own a striped gecko. i bought him from a reptile show last year, altho i went that year to get a leaf-tail but i couldnt afford the leaf-tail and striped gecko was next best. the man that sold me this gecko knew alot and made sure i knew what i was doing and it was going to a good home. he filled me in a few details, such as the gecko could be house with other geckos with very little agression and about same sized.
for the amount of time i have had this striped gecko, he has never shown agression. i can even hold him without him tryin to run, altho if he wanted, he could easily run away.

well, the reason im looking at a crested, is because at first i wanted a leaf-tail, but got a striped, and now the leaf-tail is on appendix 2 which i assume would cause a shortage in the imports and increase price of any available. so i decided that the crested gecko would be next best.
i would sell my striped gecko however i would feel bad if it ended up in some 6 year olds 5 gallon, poorly planted cage. so i decided to hold on to him.

what i would like to know, now that i just gave the tanks life history and run-on sentences, is if these 2 geckos would be able to live in the same cage without geting into fights or havein territorial issues.
i know 99% of the care for crested geckos, and as far as i know, they have similar requirements.
and from what i have read and learned from the breeder, they both have low or no agression at all towards other geckos of similar size.

if you disagree with my idea, please give me a good reason why it would not work

if you agree please feel free to say so and make any sugestions

Even if the care requirements are similar, striped geckos usually are wild-caught and therefore may carry a considerable parasite load. Mixing it with a captive bred animal would expose the crested to these parasites. Aside from possible aggression, that would be an important consideration.

It's a really bad idea to mix any 2 species. Im not very familiar w white lined geckos, but i can recall that they are in the gecko genus.......that means they are related to TOKAYS!!AHH!.....so I assume that they would be more territorial gecko than a crested. Even if they seem to get along, reptiles are hard to read and stress WILL occur. Ull probably end up w a tailess crested also. Cresteds arent really hard to care for.....if you want 1-2.....just get em their own 15 gal......thats all they need.

John

It's a bad idea to mix these two (I assume by striped gecko you mean G. vittatus).

First, as a previous poster pointed out, vittatus are closely related to Tokays, and while they aren't nearly as aggressive as Tokays generally, you never know what one is liable to do. Also, cresteds can be aggressive and territorial as well when other lizards are concerned.

Second, as also mentioned by another poster, there's the concern regarding parasites getting to your crested.

Third, their care requirements are not the same. I keep my vittatus at 88 degrees in the daytime, 75 at night. 88 is too hot for cresties.

Since care of cresteds is so easy, there's no really good reason not to give them their own enclosure.

Incidentally, having your cage in direct sunlight is a bad idea as well; I hope you are monitoring your cage temps very closely to prevent overheating.
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Chris

1.0.1 Coleonyx variegatus
1.0.0 Gekko vittatus
1.0.0 Eublepharis macularius
0.0.2 Rhacodactylus ciliatus

Terrestrial? Who you calling terrestrial?!!

well, for one i forgot to mention that my striped gecko also known as skunk gecko is captive breed.

and also, the top half of my thickest log is actualy in direct sun, its under my window and is shadded by part of a wall plus the logs and plants add to the shade. i make very well sure that my reptiles in general never overheat. and i make sure that they all get the chance to bask in some sunlight or other scource of heat.

ANYWAY you all will probly be pleased to know that i found my 20 gallon, its back wall is split, ill just take a sheet of plexy glass and patch that up nice and well and sand down any sharp edges. then ill have a perfectly good cage. so i wont need to put both geckos into the 40 gallon.

i did find out that the striped gecko was related to tokays, and that they were slightly agressive. the site i found this info said that striped geckos were biters, however he has never tried to bite at me ever. but thats a good example of individualism