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Viv change totally freaked her out.

M

Mudruck

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Ive been wanting to add more to Sunbursts viv to give her more things to climb on and under. Tonight I added some branches cut from a butterfly bush that is dormant in the yard. I washed them well, rinsed them and baked them at 300 for half an hour. Let them cool down and such for a number of hours and pulled her out of her viv to the temp tank and put the new stuff in there. Now, I admit it was quite a bit more stuff then was in there before.

When I put her back in her viv she FREAKED. It is the only time that I've ever seen her nearly standing on her tail to get out of the viv. I thought that maybe after a few minutes she would calm down so I kept an eye on her and she never did. She just kept pacing the viv and trying to find ways out WITHOUT touching the new branches. She was completely 100% dead set against having anything to do with them. She even kept burying her head into the substrate in the corner of the viv and acting like she was trying to hide from something.

Anyone seen stuff like this? I ended up pulling all of the new stuff out and leaving just her single branch and vine in there. I figure that maybe over the next few days I might try and slip one new branch in every few days and see how that goes. It was kind of disturbing to see her that worked up.

Thanks all.

Muddy
 
It's all new. New sights, new smells, all new. Don't worry about it. My corns sort of freak out whenever I change up their homes as well.
 
Yup Skittles freaked when I moved her to a tank instead of a container.

It's heartbreaking to see them that worked up and scared.
 
Sounds like your idea of adding one at time will work.
Sad that she got so freaked out!

Hey- you are from my neck of the woods! (Kinda!)
 
Added a couple into her viv this morning, and she is seems to not mind it as much as the forest that I plopped into her viv last night. She is still a little wary of the new features, but at least she isnt fighting to get out.
 
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