I took Jasmine to the vet as reccomended.. waiting on the dr to call back with info regarding the stool sample I provided..he suspects its some kind of parasite that is causing her not to gain weight.
Now on to the weird stuff...I'm in the process of cleanign out the terrarium, so I had the 3 of the chucks out on the floor in a "play area" (at the moment one of the bedrooms in my apartment is empty since my roommate just moved out)...I noticed my adult male, Wally, was doing a lot of "push-ups", I assumed he was letting the others know that this play area was his new territory..but anyway I walked in to check on them after a few minutes and Wally was attacking the juvenile male, Petey (who is probably no more than a year and a half old as he is still light colored..)..biting at his legs and Petey was biting back. I manage to separate the two...and then 10 minutes later Wally attacks the female, Jasmine!! He was biting at her neck, but she was just taking it without putting up a fight, so I watched for a minute to see if this was just some kind of ritual...but he had a flap of her skin in his mouth and was pulling on her, it looked like he was really trying to hurt her.. so with some difficulty I broke it up.
Both victims are fine, he didn't break any skin. They were a little shaken up but calmed down pretty quickly.
These 3 have been cagemates since April, and this is the first time I've ever seen this type of behavior. I could understand the 2 males, although with Petey being so young I didn't think this would be going on so soon. I was really surprised he was biting Jasmine...but then I'm still questioning whether he would have done any real damage if I had left them alone?
Anyone have any other ideas about what just happened?
