Too close together?

[blaisn8or]

So my new Ambilobe male came last week, adorable guy! Super happy, healthy, etc. I mentioned before I just had to pick up this cute 8 month old Nosy Faly female. She's fantastic too, very friendly; she was in a pet store for a while so very used to people, she loves to crawl all over me.

Question: I know she's old enough to have reached sexual maturity. I have Peach (female) about a foot away from Gizmo (3 mo. male) but when I open the cage to feed or mist her she does a straight up bee-line toward his cage. I probably know the answer but should I put something up to visually block her from seeing him? He's not (seemingly) stressed about it, but she's been crawling near the top corner of the cage (in my opinion to get to him). If I let her out and crawl over in top of his cage she sits there happy as "cham" ;-)

PS--I do have a bin at the bottom of her enclosure in case she does become gravid, I don't think she is just yet though.

 

[jannb]

I recommend keeping something between their cages at all times. She could get very stressed having to look at a male.

 

[Wowbango]

Yes I would definitely keep them so they're not in constant view of each other. I have found that it not only stresses the female, but the male as well as he's constantly in a "heightened" state.