Sydney3711
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Hello all, I hope I'm posting in the right section!
My bearded dragon Sammy has all of a sudden (about 2 - 3 months ago) started scratching/glass dancing/rubbing his nose on all of his cage walls. She (I actually just found out she was a female) is about a year old and two months now, about 15 inches long. Her substrate is a sheet of wax paper (the wax paper that you use in the kitchen). I try to feed her greens every day but I've run out of superworms and am ordering some more.
I assumed it was because I didn't take her out often enough, but even if I took her out for 4 - 5 hours a day and put him back in, he would still keep doing it! (By the way, when I did take her out, she would run around for about 20 - 30 minutes, then find a place to hide and sleep. :| )
So I researched why this was happening, and I found out that their reflection in the glass could be the problem. I already had a background on the back of the tank, so I covered the smaller sides with tracing paper (on the inside, so there wasn't any reflection). That was yesterday, and so far she hasn't touched those two walls. However, she still kept up the nose rubbing on the front side of the tank (where I can see him), and he also started to almost "jump up" and scratch on the back of her tank, where his background is. Today, I tried turning down her heat lamp (she is in a 42 gallon tank, with a 100 watt basking bulb, so I thought maybe she was getting too hot and excited). It has kind of worked so far, but when she gets warm enough she will still scratch/jump at that back wall. I don't understand, because she can't really see his reflection in that wall? Maybe she wants to get on the big stick in the picture? XD
She never used to do this while I was in class during the day.
Edit: Since I just found out she was female (The pet store I bought her from told me she was a male, so I never second guessed), I'm assuming she may be gravid. But I felt around her belly and I don't feel any eggs?
It's driving me insane and I just want her to be okay. I'm going to get a proper thermometer tomorrow from the store, to see if it's the cage's temperature that's making her do this. Off topic, but what do you guys think would be the best spot-thermometer?
Thank you!
My bearded dragon Sammy has all of a sudden (about 2 - 3 months ago) started scratching/glass dancing/rubbing his nose on all of his cage walls. She (I actually just found out she was a female) is about a year old and two months now, about 15 inches long. Her substrate is a sheet of wax paper (the wax paper that you use in the kitchen). I try to feed her greens every day but I've run out of superworms and am ordering some more.
I assumed it was because I didn't take her out often enough, but even if I took her out for 4 - 5 hours a day and put him back in, he would still keep doing it! (By the way, when I did take her out, she would run around for about 20 - 30 minutes, then find a place to hide and sleep. :| )
So I researched why this was happening, and I found out that their reflection in the glass could be the problem. I already had a background on the back of the tank, so I covered the smaller sides with tracing paper (on the inside, so there wasn't any reflection). That was yesterday, and so far she hasn't touched those two walls. However, she still kept up the nose rubbing on the front side of the tank (where I can see him), and he also started to almost "jump up" and scratch on the back of her tank, where his background is. Today, I tried turning down her heat lamp (she is in a 42 gallon tank, with a 100 watt basking bulb, so I thought maybe she was getting too hot and excited). It has kind of worked so far, but when she gets warm enough she will still scratch/jump at that back wall. I don't understand, because she can't really see his reflection in that wall? Maybe she wants to get on the big stick in the picture? XD
She never used to do this while I was in class during the day.
Edit: Since I just found out she was female (The pet store I bought her from told me she was a male, so I never second guessed), I'm assuming she may be gravid. But I felt around her belly and I don't feel any eggs?
It's driving me insane and I just want her to be okay. I'm going to get a proper thermometer tomorrow from the store, to see if it's the cage's temperature that's making her do this. Off topic, but what do you guys think would be the best spot-thermometer?
Thank you!