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ok, so my beardie just recently started getting active again after a couple months of laying around almost but not quite entirely all the time, i assume that was brumation as he seemed totally fine and healthy when he woke up. over the last two or three days he's suddenly been going crazy, running around his tank and frantically trying to climb the glass walls, rubbing his face back and forth against the glass loud enough for me to hear it across the room. he seemed to be reacting to his reflection in the glass, so i turned off the flourescent uvb light i have in there to get rid of some of the light and minimize the reflection. he seemed to calm down for a little while then did the face rubbing thing again, i watched him for a bit and he was puffing out his beard and squeezed his eyes shut and they were bulging out and he almost looked like he was having a seizure or something, and now, 20 minutes later, he's totally calm again.

I just looked, and he's got some loose skin around his mouth, like he's shedding, so that may be his whole problem. The entire time i've had him, and my friend who had him before me (friend got him as a baby, so i've known this little guy his whole life) shedding has always freaked him out, though i've never seen him wig out quite this bad.
Anyone heard of any behavior like this before?

My beardie, Saku, does that every day. Runs back and forth back and forth up against the glass. He just wants out and to go play it think. Seems normal so dont fret.
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yeah, he's done stuff like this before, but he seems pretty stressed right now and its not the trying to climb out, but the scraping his face against stuff that's worrying me, he is definitely starting to shed, so hopefully that's all it is

It could be he is jsut trying to scrap stuff of his face. But mine just likes to go nuts! *lol*

He puts his nose against the plexiglass and then GOOOOESSSS! hehe

He wakes me up every morning running back and forth making a ton of noise.

Just watch him and check his face to make sure he isnt hurting himself, but i think he will be fine.
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We have an adult male...Syracuse who does that all the time, usually means he wants to be out with us cuz he always calms down once we let him out.

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Edited on January 18, 2004 at 23:20:57 by PHGinger.

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Hi
whats youre baskingtemp??
115-110?
if his temp is to low it can cause also symptoms like that.
i would use some foil you can stick inside the cage against reflections.
you can buy it in a handycraft store on a roll.
uvb light you have what brand?
tel more about what you doing?!!?
you dust ?
with what and how many times??
give so much info as posibal.
byeeeeeeeee