Female Coleonyx Standing Verticle on Her Cage Corner?

[Mossshadow]

I find this very odd. I have one Coleonyx, I'm pretty sure it is a Utah subspecies. She lives alone in a ten gal. tank with proper heating, hides, humid hide, ect. Mostly she burrows under her paper towel substrate, probably feeling secure under there. I do see her out and about in her cage at night, like she is supposed to be.


Yet multiple times, especially in the past few days, I have seen her in the very, very far corner of her cage, resting on her hind legs, and leaning against the inner corner of the tank. She doesn't try to go up at like to climb, just sits there.


I am not too sure why she does this. Is it because her tank is not large enough? Could she simply be looking from what outside her little world?


I will post pictures, when I get the chance to see her like this again. Just now, she moved away from the corner, and went off somewhere else in the tank.

 

[perenquen]

sometimes I see my geckos doing the same thing...looks like they are curious about the outside world.
or maybe the temperature in the cage is too high for her ? so that she tries to cool by laying her belly on the cage wall?

 

[Mossshadow]

I'm wondering that too. Yet, I checked my temps, and they all seem to be normal. She only does this during the night, where the temp in her tank is mid-70's.

 

[perenquen]

so probably she is curious about what is "over the hedge"
maybe a bigger tank will help .... or some more things put into her cage, so that the space will be more "diversified" and more interesting for her to explore ?

 

[Mossshadow]

I would love to get a larger, better tank for my gecko. Who wouldn't? Thing is, that costs money, and I don't think I could spare a couple bucks for that. Besides, my parents would never let me get a larger tank.

I do plan however to make a few things interesting. A tad hard, just because she never climbs on anything.