I have an 18 month old that outgrew her last Rubbermaid-type container. I put her into her first "proper" viv (wooden with glass sliding doors on the front) a week ago and her behaviour has changed.
Where she used to be very active, she now just sits on top of a piece of cork bark under some plastic foliage. She usually appeared interested when I opened the Rubbermaid container, but now she doesn't even lift her head to look when I open the viv door.
I transferred some of the pots/bark from the old viv, unwashed for the moment, so that she'd have familiar smells around her. I made sure that the temp gradients are the same in the new viv as the old one. The new viv is in the same room as the old one, so there's no change in the ambient temperature, difference in outside noise/movement etc. I basically did all the things I've always done when moving Corns to a new viv and have never had a problem before.
She's still eating as before, hasn't regurged, I've seen her drink and her faeces look normal. However, when I pick her up she feels very slightly more limp than usual. Call me soppy, but she seems "depressed", for want of a better description.
I'm off to a good local reptile vet with her in a couple of days just to be sure, but can anybody suggest what might be going on? Has she just been upset by the change in surroundings?
Where she used to be very active, she now just sits on top of a piece of cork bark under some plastic foliage. She usually appeared interested when I opened the Rubbermaid container, but now she doesn't even lift her head to look when I open the viv door.
I transferred some of the pots/bark from the old viv, unwashed for the moment, so that she'd have familiar smells around her. I made sure that the temp gradients are the same in the new viv as the old one. The new viv is in the same room as the old one, so there's no change in the ambient temperature, difference in outside noise/movement etc. I basically did all the things I've always done when moving Corns to a new viv and have never had a problem before.
She's still eating as before, hasn't regurged, I've seen her drink and her faeces look normal. However, when I pick her up she feels very slightly more limp than usual. Call me soppy, but she seems "depressed", for want of a better description.
I'm off to a good local reptile vet with her in a couple of days just to be sure, but can anybody suggest what might be going on? Has she just been upset by the change in surroundings?
I think he is just taking a while to get used to it, he probably comes out at night when I am asleep.
