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Joined: Sep 27, 2006 Posts: 58 Location: Fort Wayne, Indiana
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:44 am Post subject: What to do??
Yoshi is always very active; she spends most of the day digging around, swimming, and trying to escape. Eats like there's no tomorrow.
I just noticed a white spot on the end of her nose. I assume its from her trying to jump out of her cage and smacking her nose on the screen top. Is there any way I can get her to stop doing this, without changing cages? We don't have her adult home finished yet. _________________ ~Abby~
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Joined: Apr 24, 2007 Posts: 93 Location: Gretna, VA
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:26 pm Post subject: Re: What to do??
aplusreptiles wrote:
Yoshi is always very active; she spends most of the day digging around, swimming, and trying to escape. Eats like there's no tomorrow.
I just noticed a white spot on the end of her nose. I assume its from her trying to jump out of her cage and smacking her nose on the screen top. Is there any way I can get her to stop doing this, without changing cages? We don't have her adult home finished yet.
I have the same problem with my guys. Here's what I am doing:
1 - I made sure temps/humidity is right in the current enclosure.
2 - I am working as fast as I can on the big enclosure
3 - I am giving them as much (supervised) free roam time as possible.
4 - I am feeding them earlier. I noticed that they were mainly trying to escape in the morning before eating. After eating they mostly lay out and bask until late afternoon/evening when they burrow under the mulch for the night.
5 - I covered the screen top with an opaque plastic top (in my case a rubbermaid lid that I cut to allow placement of the basking light.
This seemed to help, but I think the only permanent solution is the bigger enclosure _________________ 2.0.0 Argentine B&W Tegus
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