The thing to keep in mind with keeping ciliaris and taenicauda together is that they can crossbreed. Temperature, humidity and other requirements is not an issue.
I once put a deformed juvenile ciliaris in with my ringtails, it didn't end well for the ciliaris......
Simply because they are in the same genus does not mean they are capable of cross breeding or even likely to attempt cross mating. Unless you have hard evidence of this having actually occurred I would be reticent to postulate it as a likely posssibilty.
I am not the least bit surprised that a juvenile ciliaris did not fare well with a ringtail. The latter are arguably our largest gecko and aggressive by nature. Smaller geckoes are part of their diet in nature. You would only but expect it to end that way.
Borris + Natasha,
In mixing any to species of lizard together there are a few things to consider. The environmental conditions that each requires is one. The natural diet of each is another. Aggression, particularly towards other lizards of the same or different species, is critical. Dominance displays towards other lizards of the same or different species is also important.
Research on the natural disposition and diets of the different species is obviously critical. Some of the potential for negative interactions can be ameliorated by ensuring that the lizards are of the same size. There are plenty of different species of geckoes that I believe would probably get along just fine together. There are others, no way would I trust. However, until someone actually tries it, we will never know for certain.
Bottom line… do your background research because there are some risks worth taking and some that are obviously not. By the way, I did keep an
Oedura robusta with a number of
O. lesueurii for a couple of years, no dramas at all.
Luv “Rocky and Bullwinkle”!!!
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