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Most care sheets I find say to only house breeding pairs but most books also say that 1.2 harems are okay. I already have a 6" female but I'm about to buy a 10-12" male. The store also has 2 more young females and I was hoping to buy them all. I can keep all the females in one cage and the male in his own cage but I would rather use that cage for a Giant D.G. colony. Then again I don't think it would be wise to have more than 1 female in any cage.

Would I be better off just buying the male and hope somebody as caring as me buys the other females. I would rather have as many females as possible because I want to start the biggest breeding program that I can. I've already got people asking me for CB juvies.

The cages I have now are a 29gal and a 65gal. I can buy another 65gal within the month of April if I have to. I've also been think of setting up visual barriers but I would like other people's opinions on these ideas.

So please, if anybody has any opinions on this subject please reply!

ive kept standings for like 12yrs, they can get along in a trio,but it has nuthin to do with the size of the cage. ive always had atleast one runnin around in the room. they are very intellegent. i have had two juvi females beat eachother up while they had the entire room to themselves. but at the same time i had two 9 inch females in a 30 x high with a 16in ambanja blue panther chameleon with no conflict at all. i seperated the two females and then put them back together in a bigger cage and they ripped eachother up. the best way to keep a trio would be to introduce all three into the cage at the same time making sure none of them were familiar with the territory. but youre best bet would be to keep just one pair to start off with. Besides, standings are like clockwork, youll have your hands full with one female. standings are not sexually dimorphic, females will get the same size as the males, so from what you said it sounds like that male might be a little big for her. my female s atleast 14yrs older then the male, he was captive bred, she was w/c and the same size when i bought her in like '94. they never had any problems between the two of them.

Yeah, I'm concerned about the size difference too but if things go bad I'll keep them seperated and try again when she grows more. Hopefully that'll be within only 3-4 months. Before then I should have a 35gal cage for the standing's and they will still have the 65gal. If things go bad between the adult male and my current female I'll have to put off on getting those grandis' for awhile.

I asked the same question at a phelsuma forum and now I'm considering on not buying the 2 younger juvies. If one happens to be a male I may still get them but if they are both females I'll forget about it. Although I wouldn't mind having at least one more female to try having a trio but that wouldn't be until she grows more too.

Today, or rather yesterday, I bought the adult male. The 2 juvies had already been sold the day before. The adult male turned out to be 9.5" with his tail being 5" of that. His 4.5" SV didn't seem like much more than my female's 3" SV so I figured that the difference wouldn't be too much. He also didn't seem that big when he was in the pet store owner's hand.

The night before my 65gal Reptarium came in the mail and I had set it up. When I woke up I placed the female in the cage and then a few hours later I came home with the male. I placed him in the cage and things seemed to be fine. He accidentally scared her into the coconut hut when I closed the cage. He ran strait over her but it wasn't intentional. She came out not long after that and there hasn't been any obvious fighting or hiding. I'm sure they are both still getting used to the new surroundings so I'll have to wait and see.

Once he was in the cage near the female the difference in size became quite noticable. I'm sure the female, Moto, will normally hide from him from time to time. I have yet to think up a name for him.

well he sounds like a monster, cuz my female (that i had for12yrs, and was the same size and color when i bought her as she is now) is just 9in long. the bad thing is that there is no hiding from one another as long as they know of eachothers presence. i had two female subadults(sisters) that had an entire room with multiple territories and beat eachother up until the one got stuck in a box and died of rickets. with standings, theres no middle ground, either theyre partners for life or theyre lookin to rip the others body apart. but since its just one male and one female they should be fine cuz she s sexually mature.

At first I thought she was keeping her distance from him but these last 2 days they have been right next to each other. My only problem now is that I wish they wouldn't stay on the side of the cage. I would rather see them basking in the basking spots that I set up for them. Maybe it'll just take a little time for them to get totally used to the cage. I have been swapping out bulbs quite often trying to get the right temps. I just fed them and she was the first to notice and catch a cricket and then he did the same.