Posted by: Ingo at Fri Mar 24 00:50:16 2006

So many animals? No way.
A 90 g is a decent size for a pair, even though I prefer to keep them in bigger tanks.
Tokays are hardy and survive decades even in shoebox sized enclosures. But they are agile runners and animals in large tanks show a completely different baheaviour than thier collegues in tiny 20-50g.
After all, tokays in big tanks are mamong the least aggressive gecko species at all-the same animals which can be that fiesty in small tanks!
Tokays also do show pair bonding. In a considerable percentage of cases, a pair accepts a second female which then may also lay fertile eggs. But in many cases, the female fights all other females or the male does not mate with additional females.
If you add 4-5 females in a 90g, the tank would be so overcrowded, that animals quite liklely won´t fight, but its far from apt keeping.

Ci@o

Ingo


That was very interesting . I was looking into a tokay and pet store guy told me a 20 gallon high was more than enough as not active at all but after reading the posts here and yours see that a 20 high is terrible way to small.
They carry much larger extra high size tanks think thats my best choice.
Do you find a sexed pair does better than a single tokay in large enough tank ? I was under impression solitary by nature and better to keep single but I would prefer a pair .

Thanks

Lia

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