DwighttheDragon
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I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, and whether this behavior is normal. Dwight, our 5 1/2 month old beardie, has been going crazy the last few days, to the point where he is missing meals because he is too pre-occupied with his glass-surfing and general tank destruction. Breakfast (12-15 big crickets and a few munches of collard greens) seems to be fine, but that's been pretty much it the last couple of days. Though if I do throw a 'treat' superworm (freshly shed), he will immediately eat it.
He physically seems healthy, 14 1/2" long, 252g, and no real stress marks, although he does sometimes get a black beard while he does this. He also head bobbed at his own reflection for the first time yesterday. We have taken him out to run around, but that doesn't seem to help when we put him back in.
Below is a picture of the set-up. Its a 40 gal, 10.0 reptisun tube, 100 W halogen backing bulb. It gets up to about 110 at the basking site, with ambient around 85 on the warm side down to 72 on the cool side ... measured with a digital thermometer. There is also a CHE for the cold days. The substrate is shelf liner. I did try to swap out the tree for a stone basking spot, but he would have none of that. He gets straight up angry if his tree is missing, even if its for a 10 minute cleaning.
I guess I'm just wondering if this is the equivalent to a beardie teenager, or if something could be wrong with what I'm doing.
Thank you very much!
He physically seems healthy, 14 1/2" long, 252g, and no real stress marks, although he does sometimes get a black beard while he does this. He also head bobbed at his own reflection for the first time yesterday. We have taken him out to run around, but that doesn't seem to help when we put him back in.
Below is a picture of the set-up. Its a 40 gal, 10.0 reptisun tube, 100 W halogen backing bulb. It gets up to about 110 at the basking site, with ambient around 85 on the warm side down to 72 on the cool side ... measured with a digital thermometer. There is also a CHE for the cold days. The substrate is shelf liner. I did try to swap out the tree for a stone basking spot, but he would have none of that. He gets straight up angry if his tree is missing, even if its for a 10 minute cleaning.
I guess I'm just wondering if this is the equivalent to a beardie teenager, or if something could be wrong with what I'm doing.
Thank you very much!