So we've had spyro for around 6 months now, she's about 8 months old. Initally, she was in a 4ft vivarium from pets at home and she never seemed happy, always dark with stress lines. We changed the substrate from sand to repti carpet but her behaviour didnt change, so we altered the temperatures, first making it hotter, then making it cooler, we changed the uv light to 10. Reptisun and still she was unhappy. Although she was dark with stress lines she ate fine (around 20-30 locusts a day) and pooped every day. Regardless, we took her to the vet to check for parasites which came back negative.
We decided to buy her a bigger, better viv thinking it would improve her mood but, if anything, its made matters worse. Shes been in the new viv for a month now and all she does is hide in her log, she refused to eat for 2 weeks and didnt poo so we went back to the vets who put it down to relocation stress. We decided to try roaches and while she will eat them, she doesnt eat too many (averaging around 8 a day). Originally we had 2x 60 watt bulbs but the temperature was waaay to high (132f) so we are currently using 1 60watt bulb with the basking temperature at 105, ambient is around 85. We tried taking the log out but she went very very black and didnt move so we gave up and put it back in.
Im at a loss, I dont know what else to do. I feel like we've tried everything and its growing increasingly frustrating each day. Im hoping someone may have experienced this before and could provide some advice, ANY advice to finally make Spyro happy.
We decided to buy her a bigger, better viv thinking it would improve her mood but, if anything, its made matters worse. Shes been in the new viv for a month now and all she does is hide in her log, she refused to eat for 2 weeks and didnt poo so we went back to the vets who put it down to relocation stress. We decided to try roaches and while she will eat them, she doesnt eat too many (averaging around 8 a day). Originally we had 2x 60 watt bulbs but the temperature was waaay to high (132f) so we are currently using 1 60watt bulb with the basking temperature at 105, ambient is around 85. We tried taking the log out but she went very very black and didnt move so we gave up and put it back in.
Im at a loss, I dont know what else to do. I feel like we've tried everything and its growing increasingly frustrating each day. Im hoping someone may have experienced this before and could provide some advice, ANY advice to finally make Spyro happy.