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My leopard gecko is about 2 years old, and recently started behaving strangely, and I was wondering if any of you have seen this or can understand it. She's on paper towels as substrate, and up until a few weeks ago, she was fine, not doing anything weird, and thriving. Recently she decided that she liked being under the paper towels instead of on top of them, and dug/wiggled her way around the edge. Now in order to feed her i have to lift the paper towels off of her. We tried setting her up with cage carpet instead, thinking that the fact that it's heavier/stiffer might prevent her from doing that, but now she's under the carpet, so that obviously doesn't work. Anybody got a clue why she did this? The only thing recently changed about her enclosure was a new water bowl - otherwise it has remained the same for quite a while now. Paper towels, a hide on the warm end, a hide on the cold end, water bowl, calcium dish, hammock thing on the cool end, 2 rocks for her to climb on between the hides, nothing particularly weird about it, and the temps are within accepted norms, 90ish on the warm end and room temp/70-75ish on the cool end. Any ideas?
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0.1 Albino Leopard Gecko - Tigger
0.1 Crested Gecko - Pooh-Bear

90 is a little hot- aim for more like 85 max. Also, I had a male that did this same thing, and just didn't have the appetite he used to. A course of Panacur has got his appetite back in full.
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>>90 is a little hot- aim for more like 85 max. Also, I had a male that did this same thing, and just didn't have the appetite he used to. A course of Panacur has got his appetite back in full.
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90 is only 2 degrees over what the Leopard gecko manual recommends on page 14. Also, I said 90ish - to be more precise, the thermometer on the ground directly over the heating pad reads about 88 or 89, so it's basically right on. It has been the same for her whole life and only now is she doing something weird. Also, I doubt that it's parasites like yours apparently was if Panacur took care of it, because she has had no loss of appetite - when I uncover her for a meal she chomps crickets right down.
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0.1 Albino Leopard Gecko - Tigger
0.1 Crested Gecko - Pooh-Bear

you could maybe use double sides sticky pads, place them on the bottom of the carpet thing around the edges, stick it down, that should stop him from pullin it up

>>you could maybe use double sides sticky pads, place them on the bottom of the carpet thing around the edges, stick it down, that should stop him from pullin it up

Turns out she apparently wanted somewhere bigger/more secure to hide - we bought a bigger and more opaque hide for the cool end of the tank where she'd been sneaking under and she seems to like that, so problem solved apparently. Haven't seen her try to dig her way under the carpet anymore.
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0.1 Albino Leopard Gecko - Tigger
0.1 Crested Gecko - Pooh-Bear