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First off, I just moved my 3 adult/almost adult female crested geckos into a 3 foot tall 55 gallon tank. I did that yesterday. That really isn't part of my question, but they seem very very happy with the upgrade from a 20 gallon tall to their new mansion.

I purchased a male today, and plan on breeding him to my 3 females in the spring. I understand that I need to quarantine him, so I do currently have him in his own small tank (which i intend to make bigger). How long should I keep him in quarantine? I do not want to end up with dead geckos...they are my pride and joy. So far, I have 1 patternless (male), 2 fire-looking morphs, and 1 red dalmatian. I hope to get some nice looking babies in spring.
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0.1 Irian Jaya carpet python
0.1 Ball python
0.3 Crested Geckos
2.2.7 Leopard Geckos (male-jungle, hypo tangerine carrot tail. female-normal, albino. babies-leucistic, blizzard, normal)
0.1 Western Hognose snake
1.0 Eastern Milksnake (currently free roaming in my home =/)
1.0 Albino Lavender California Kingsnake
1.1 Bearded Dragons
0.2 Water turtles
1.0 Umbrella Cockatoo (belongs to my mom and I)

Quarantine should be at least one month, some feel three months and three clean fecals from a vet (one a month) is better. As crested geckos are very resilient to diseases compared to other reptiles, they don't have as many communicable diseases however quarentee practices should still be used. There is one deadly ailment crested geckos get that will kill them and there really are no symptons till near the very end. I can't remember the name of the disease but the later stages are extreme weight loss and lathargy followed by death.

To be on the safe side, keep your male in a different room (if possible) from your females and clean/feed/handle your male last, so you lessen chances of cross contaimination. Wash his feeding dishes/water dishes last and disinfect well, or wash in a separate sink altogether.
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PHLdyPayne