Quote Originally Posted by Soterios View Post
I have had a Red Ackie for about 2 years now. I had someone give another one too me. (a female, mine is unsexed)

The female is quite a bit larger than ours, and when we introduced them, the new female chased him around a bit, and eventually bit ours, so I reached in and separated them.

There seems to be little known about them. Anyone here breed them?

I have two trios. I have bred them in past years...actually let me correct that = they have bred on their own. It has never been my intent or goal to be an ackie breeder.

Putting unsexed adult ackies together is not a good idea. In fact, putting sexed adult ackies in the same enclosure who have not been raised together is a bad idea. Introduced adult males and females will most often than not - fight.

They are notoriously hard to sex - are you sure that the new one is a female? The everted sexual organs of the males and females look very much alike.

There is a lot known about them. Pro Exotics has a comprehensive care sheet and a search on this and other forums such as Varanus.nl will yield even more information.

My personal and very biased opinion is that if you plan on keeping the new adult ackie, keep it in it's own enclosure. The odds of those two ever getting along or accepting each other is slim, while the odds of them fighting, hurting or stressing each other out is very, very high.