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hi, my 5 month old sulcata, julian, will occasionally flip himself over! i'll walk into my room maybe once a week and it'll be on its back kicking. of course i get very upset and flip him back over. he'll climb up on the walls of his enclosure and then fall backwards. the other day i came home from a day of skiing and found him over on his back, asleep. i have no way of knowing how long he had been like that. he ended up being okay, but still.... i felt really bad. i spend a lot of time around him daily and am able to check up on him all the time even all throught the night i get nervous and take a peek... but some days i just can't be there 24/7. is there anything i can do to prevent this? did anyone else ever have this problem?

-gina

i had this problem. and it is very serious because of their lungs. my problem was she flipped over from clinmbing up logs she had in her unclosure. does yours have any climbable decorations in the enclosure?
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1 sulcata ( sullivan )
1 russian ( foxy )
3 cockerspaniels (wilbur, charlotte and torre )
1 betta ( frederica )

NO, he did it today from the middle of the cage and he does it on the walls.

well, that was rude, andy. i'm taking my password away from you lol. anyhoo, no, julian doesn't really have anything climbable at all. for a while he had a zoomed half log that he would lean against and rest on but that didn't present any sort of problem. the real problem seems to be the walls. as soon as i discovered he was trying to walk up the walls i took the log out as a precaution. so he's been log free for a few weeks and still manages to flip over. hmmm...

-gina