Idkman
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After feeding my beardie, Rex her meal she’s been running up and down, climbing everything, glass surfing, and trying to climb the roof of her tank too. This isn’t the first time that she’s done this. She doesn’t do this for long but she just goes crazy and I’m just surprised that she hasn’t broken her tail or burned herself yet. I usually end up taking her out of her tank for a few minutes and then putting her back and feeding her a bit more to finally end her crazyness. She also looks around everywhere like she’s on drugs and just saw a ghost. I don’t know if she’s scared or anything and if she is I have no idea what she’d be scared of besides me. I have noticed that her breathing has been picking up when she sees me. I’ve had her for 5 years tho so i don’t know how she’d just start seeing me as a threat unless maybe the stress from her getting sick not too long ago made her not like me anymore. I hand feed her so sometimes when I try to give her some food she’ll just open her mouth and not do anything. She won’t puff up or darken her beard and I don’t think it’s because she’s getting hot. Sometimes she does it outside her tank so I’m a bit confused. Now my second beardie, max is a very skittish and sensitive big chonky boy. I can’t blame him because when i got him he was very scared a super aggressive. Now five years later he’s no longer trying to bite my fingers off (unless I try to wake him up but again I can’t blame him) and he seemed cool with me. Emphasis on seemed. He also got sick with parasites not too long ago so I had to do a lot of cleaning, handling, and baths. All that made me realize that I ended up doing a terrible job with properly bonding with him. He gets stressed when I pet him and closes his eyes sometimes when I try to pick him up. He now doesn’t have parasites. Yet he still glass surfs and I feel so bad for him. His stress marks won’t go away as Rex’s marks are finally starting to fade. I’ve been trying to bond with him again but I don’t want to stress him out even more. Especially since he just had parasites and stress can cause the immune system to be unable to fight stuff like that off. I’ve got no idea how to help them both.