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I was doing a major clean in the reptile room a few days ago. While I was cleaning my big crested cage I placed my male with my female in a small container. In about five minutes I heard a gecko bark and the male had the female in his jaws! I seperated them right away. What could have caused this? The stress from being removed from the cage? Anyway, she is fat again and hopefully he did his job with her and she will lay another clutch. Should I introduce them again after she lays?

She is consistant so far with her eggs. Last month I noticed she was gravid(got her from a petstore and she was housed with other geckos), but I didn't catch the eggs and she laid them on paper. On 5/2, I introduced the new male with her and I had an egg box in there... but thought it would take longer for her to lay the eggs. So she laid them in dry soil. I found this out when I was digging through the box and I flipped them a few times. This made me very sad. One was white and healthy, the other was white in the middle with grey/transluscent sides. Anyway, I am incubating them anyway in hopes they still hatch. I am so afraid I drowned the embryos.

One more thing. Diet! What is a good system per week to feed these guys. Right now I am giving dusted crickets one day, wait a day, then baby food the next and repeat throughout the week. Is this effective to achieve all the nutrition they need? Should I supplement with cgd? fruit? What do you guys do?

So, this is stressing me out, but I know I will get it soon. Thanks in advance.

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Cheers,
Michael Starkey
Arboreal Addictions

Males will bite the skin on the back of the neck of the female (this is normal) now if the male punctured the skin then you should remove the female and wait till her wound heals before reintroducing her.

As for the diet I feed mine an alternating diet of crickets (dusted in Rep-Cal), CGD, and "Fresh" Fruit (Bannana and Peaches). I feed them every other day. I have great success with this diet and all my animals are doing great on it. I would not use babyfood (too much sugar).

Hope this helped
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Derek Dunlop
DDReptiles
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They were facing each other, then he bit her snout and bottom jaw, not the back of the neck. Could he have been trying to get her to breed? He didn't puncture the skin.

Thanks for the help.
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Cheers,
Michael Starkey
Arboreal Addictions

I don't know why he did it, maybe he just got mad. It could be a breeding attempt but probably not. As long as he didn't puncture the skin she should be fine.
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Derek Dunlop
DDReptiles
http://www.freewebs.com/ddreptiles/index.htm

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you may want to feed a couple more crickets, and switch the babyfood over to crested gecko diet. they look fairly healthy, but if they're only getting 3 crickets a week, then they must be eating a lot more babyfood than they probably should be. they will be much healthier and produce stronger offspring with a higher percentage hatch rate.

well, i had an experience with my male going bonkers when i had mine on display one day for my herpetology club here at school. for the first half of the day, everything went fine, but after a while, my male, stimpy, woke up and started wandering around, licking furiously. all the sudden i noticed he was latched onto the tail of one female. i pried his jaws open (they're stronger than what you'd think), and separated that female. there was still one left. so a few minutes later, i look back and he's all over her, not quite giving her the love bite, but she's struggling cuz hes biting a fold of skin on her head. i really do think that stress played a role in what happened that day. i've never seen my male act up like that before or after.