Today I took everything out of the 55 gallon tank, and scrubbed everything down. I put in new bulbs and new brown paper on the sides and back. I have never covered the sides and back, but its against the wall, and in a quiet room. All new sand, cleaned the glass. I spent a good two hours freshening up the place. A couple months ago I bought him a huge water dish thinking he may enjoy a splash once in awhile. He has never bothered with it. So after everything is cleaned up, and the new sand is in, I change up the layout. I had two hammocks on one side, and I stacked two pieces of driftwood for a ram to them. Today I put a hammock on each side of the tank with driftwood stacked to get to both hammocks. One hammock is kept hot and the other is just warm. Then he can get undernearth either corner for shade. I placed the huge water bowl in the center with his food dish. I should get off my hump and just take a picture lol.
Diesel is almost a year old, and has always seemed kinda lazy. He would run when it was time to eat, and I always had to drown his food to keep him hydrated. I would throw his live food in the water bowl, and he would eat it out of there, but he would never just drink from it.
So today my little freak of a dragon, and I mean that in a loving way, goes NUTS when I put him in his new clean home. He goes straight to the water bowl and drinks for 5 minutes! I was excited! Then he jumps in and lays in the water (he just fits). Next he lifts his tail and takes a huge dump (thanks buddy). He starts running from hammock to hammock, splashing thru the water bowl each time he cross's the tank. After 10 times back and forth, 70% of the sand is wet (top layer), and he starts biting his tail, and feet. Then he starts eating clumps of wet sand! I had fed him two hours before, just before I moved him to his holding cell. WTF! So I pull him out of his tank, and put him back in the holding tank. He has calmed down, but its just a 20 gallon tank with paper towl on the bottom, nothing else, and not much room to move.
What do I do with this freak!? Is it because he cant see out of the sides of the tank? He keeps trying to look around the corners in front. Was it the drastic change in furniture? Maybe I should have changed the UV bulbs a month ago? These were 6 months old.
Temp were perfect when I put him back in.
Diesel is almost a year old, and has always seemed kinda lazy. He would run when it was time to eat, and I always had to drown his food to keep him hydrated. I would throw his live food in the water bowl, and he would eat it out of there, but he would never just drink from it.
So today my little freak of a dragon, and I mean that in a loving way, goes NUTS when I put him in his new clean home. He goes straight to the water bowl and drinks for 5 minutes! I was excited! Then he jumps in and lays in the water (he just fits). Next he lifts his tail and takes a huge dump (thanks buddy). He starts running from hammock to hammock, splashing thru the water bowl each time he cross's the tank. After 10 times back and forth, 70% of the sand is wet (top layer), and he starts biting his tail, and feet. Then he starts eating clumps of wet sand! I had fed him two hours before, just before I moved him to his holding cell. WTF! So I pull him out of his tank, and put him back in the holding tank. He has calmed down, but its just a 20 gallon tank with paper towl on the bottom, nothing else, and not much room to move.
What do I do with this freak!? Is it because he cant see out of the sides of the tank? He keeps trying to look around the corners in front. Was it the drastic change in furniture? Maybe I should have changed the UV bulbs a month ago? These were 6 months old.
Temp were perfect when I put him back in.
