injured noses...

[ettore]

hello

though my two crested females got a brandnew big tank (it's 100x60x80 cm) one of them has a wound on her nose again.

i have 2 theories: the first one is that they bite each other, the second one that the two of them try to escape and press their noses against the glass...

however, next to the front there is only gass wall is the left side....can't they realize that there is glass???

I'm really bothered, cause i thought with a new tank their injured noses could heal.....

if anyone had an idea....

 

[thorrshamri]

Snout injuries are fairly common with Water Dragons (Physignatus sp.),what is done usually is opaque tape on the glass panes up to a 40-50 cm height.Maybe you don't need that height,but covering the lower part of your glass panes with opaque tape too could be an idea.If they would bite each other,you would probably hear some noise and vocalizations from their vivs,and bites and snout injuries due to frequent shocks don't look the same-their limbs,flanks and so on would be bitten too.I do believe your geckos get injured when they jump on prey or when they want to hop from one branch to another.This is quite unusual though.

 

[ettore]

hmmm... i just don' know why they don' like their new tank....maby they just have to get jused to it

but i agree concerning the bite-marks....

it' also hard to know it their wounds are new or not, because they hardly heal....i have to wait till they shad (written right? )

but what's the exact use of covering the lower parts of the tank? i mean they can climb....

 

[thorrshamri]

It minimizes the visual stress and it is also important for WD as for many reptiles to feel secure in a "closed" space,be it closed in the sense that they can't escape,but also because they can't see much of the outside domestic activities,i.e. people coming and going,other pets in the house...is that clearer for you?

I add that WDs do not seem to be aware of the glass panes so they jump and rush on them as if there were no glass at all,that's the main cause of snout injuries.I do believe there are no major neurologic differences in a crestie's brain,so a similar behaviour could have a similar explanation :wink: