Wakes up stressed everymorning?

[Skymall007]

Gamma wakes up with black spots every morning and stress marks though she seems calm. She also seems to puff up once a day. She is a juvi, so maybe the puffing is her learning how to do that? I am uncertain. Is this normal? If not, what can I do?

She is in a 20 gallon until I can build her larger enclosure (she is 15 inches now, grew very fast). She has reptisun 10.0 brand new 18inch. It is below the screen so that it is unfiltered. There is a basking light. Hot side is around 105 and her cool side is in the 75-80 range. I use a prob for temps. She has paper towel for substrate. Her main staple foods are crickets and spinach. She only recently began accepting spinach as a food item.

Thank you guys!

 

[Linziehonn]

Two of mine do the same thing every morning, they tend to turn darker to absorb the heat generally when they're going from cold to warm. Once he warms up do his normal colors come back?

Spinach really isn't a great staple green, you can use collards, turnip, and/or mustard greens as a good staple. I've provided a link to a website that shows what can be fed daily versus what can be fed on occasion or never.

http://www.beautifuldragons.com/Nutrition.html

 

[Skymall007]

Thank you ubers =) I am glad this is normal (her colors come back after a tiny bit). I shall look on that website =)