Beardie Fighting Reflection

[7hunder68]

My Beardie has recently been trying to fight her reflection. I was feeding her today and she saw her reflection, and immediately ignored the food and ran over to it. Then, she started bumping the glass with her snout. The thing is, she doesn't seem angry when doing this. It seems like she actually brightens up when doing this. She is around 11 months old, and 16in long.

 

[maddylemon]

When beardies do that it's called glass surfing. They can do it for a lot of reasons from stress, the enclosure being too small, or even just as a sign that they want to get out of their tank.

I think your beardie just got distracted and saw its reflection probably thinking it was another bearded dragon. It is completely normal behavior, you just have to step back and think about why they are doing and fix the situation if need be.

Hope this helped

 

[7hunder68]

Sorry for the late reply. How do i stop her from seeing her reflection? Could I just put printer paper on the inside of the glass until I get a wallpaper?

 

[CooperDragon]

Yeah. Or newspaper or printed out photos or some fabric. You can get pretty creative with different backgrounds.