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Alicewave
02-20-03, 11:15 AM
I'm planning to get Seneca a couple patternless females in a few months. I also plan to quarrantine them to avoid spreading parasites to him. I don't have a ton of space but I am wondering is a 15 gallon tank is big enough to keep two adults for the quarantine period. Also, do I need to quarantine for as long if I have fecals done? I'm thinking yes because they wont check for crypto on a fecal. Any thoughts or suggestions?
I would recommend quarentining the females completely separate from each other, as well as away from the male. While fecals should be done regardless, you should still quarentine just in case. Quarentining also allows you to observe how each female is doing, observe eating and other behaviours. Just before you introduce them all together I would also get a fecal on the male... just in case! Hope this helps!
P.S. a ten gallon for each gecko should be fine, but make sure the group has a larger enclosure when all the quarentines are finished (around 30-60 days).
I would recommend quarantining all new additions separately from eachother, just to be sure and if something is wrong, you can isolate the source. Also, if one of them is sick it could possibly infect the other it is housed with. Regardless of fecals, you still need to quarantine for a period of time (I recommend 3 months for geckos, 6-9 for snakes), as there is more than just parasites that can affect a sick animal, and some of which can be airborn. Hope this helped :)
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