Just out of interest, can you house leopard geckos with fat tail geckos? Preferably a male of one and a female of the other?

I'm not planning on doing this, it's just a friend is, and she got told by the petshop owner that they can happily live together. I wasn't sure though, seeing as they're different species.

Advice needed please!!!

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no... its not recomended to house them togther.

Tell her to read a comprehensive caresheet and then work out how she will provide the care for both in the same enclosure!!

Marina

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fat tails are tropical geckos, and leopards are desert!!! and u say a shop told u this??

She already has a leopard gecko, had her for about a year. But yeah the petshop owner said that people keep them together and they get on quite well, the fat tailed gecko is a male.... leopard female.

I didn't think you could keep them together!

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Nope i wouldnt advise it either
Aft's need high humidity and different set ups.
Leos need lower humidity and unless she is planning in keeping them in a viv the size of a room id advise against it.

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Not reconmended fat tails and leo's may have no problems living to gether they may get on grate.BUT it's there need that stop you from doing such a thing.Fat tails need a all round humid environment and leo's need dry environment other than a moist box that simulates there burrow/hide that help with sheding.So how can you meet both need in one viv.A viv either moist or dry not both.One may also have parasites'etc that one is fully immune to but could course big harm to the other.Like the issues with USA and UK crayfish.And Asian and Euro eels one speices lives with the problem with no affect but it courses really problems to the other.

i agree,
afts need the higher humidity which could cause ri's in the leos, and leos needing the dryer conditions could give the aft an ri,

i'd seperate them,

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i was in a pet shop the other week and was talking to the owner, he claimed to have bred some fat tail / leopard gecko hybrids and that he had a nice male fat tail for sale that was aclimatised to living in leo habitat, he showed me a nice fat tail male but i smelled B.S and left, think he was just after a sale and would tell me any old rubbish

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