Walking stress

[acidburn01]

Nova loves walking around the house. She'll scratch and scratch at her tank until we let her out and set her down and she's off to the races. She'll tear through the hall, the living room and all the way into the kitchen. It's a daily thing, sometimes more than once a day. And it makes her super bright orange BUT her beard and last part of her tail get super dark, real black. I don't think she gets streaked, but those other things do happen and I can't figure out why. She likes running around but gets stressed.? What does that mean, is she even getting stressed.?

 

[CooperDragon]

The temporarily dark areas could be mood related. Sometimes stress but sometimes hormones. It sounds like she enjoys running around so my guess is that she is OK and this may be a seasonal mood rather than a problem. I'd give her plenty of time to run around and possibly set up a portable basking spot with a clamp lamp etc for her to warm up when she's out and about.

 

[acidburn01]

The temporarily dark areas could be mood related. Sometimes stress but sometimes hormones. It sounds like she enjoys running around so my guess is that she is OK and this may be a seasonal mood rather than a problem. I'd give her plenty of time to run around and possibly set up a portable basking spot with a clamp lamp etc for her to warm up when she's out and about.

That's what I figured but she gets that way every single time she's out. She definitely would rather be out than in her tank, she is constantly surfing and desperately scratching and it makes it hard to juggle the others when they want out too