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well, i saw my veiled 4 month old eating hibiscus leaves in his outdoor cage, ferociously biting the leaves and flowers.... now everytime i take him out from his outdoor cage, he hisses at me, and by looking down his throat, i see pink and green leaves

YAY........
nice garage set up tyler, doesnt it get cold in vegas on winter nights?? hoe do u keep the garage warm enough?

Are you blaming the flowers for making him agressive? I'm not sure I understood the question, but if anything I would think that eating veggies or plants would calm them down. In some other reptiles, eating meat makes them agressive. How long is he/she storing the leaves and flowers in the throat? Thanks about the garage. Right now it's still kinda hot. Today was probably 95-98 so I'm still using the swamp cooler. This winter I am using just a small heater with a thermostat. I put styrofoam insulation against my garage door and it helped quite a bit, for both heating and cooling. I moved into this house in February and I finished that winter with nothing more than one of those heat dishes that I turned on at night and off in the morning and it worked ok too. Never got below 65. It never even freezes here so heating's not as hard as cooling.
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Tyler Stewart
Las Vegas NV

no, i wasnt saying he is more agressive, it was just hard for him to tear the leaves so he was twisting and chomping different positions.......

Yeah, when I've seen veileds eat hibiscus leaves, it's harder to tear them than a ficus leaf. Hibiscus leaves are much bigger and thicker. Was he/she eating whole leaves or tearing parts off?
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Tyler Stewart
Las Vegas NV