Grandis Olympics

Benja

New member
Good day all. I'm relatively new to Phelsuma, so I have a behavioral question to be on the safe side. Is it unusual for a Grandis to be ridiculously active out of no where?
Allow me to explain: I have a female Grandis kept in a relatively large enclosure(for north america, 4'x2'x3'). Normally she's moderately active, makes a couple laps around the enclosure a day, eats fine, but generally spends a fair amount of time basking. Suddenly yesterday all I could hear was her thunking against the glass as she climbs around the back, leaps across the enclosure to the front glass, climbs up and around to the back and repeats, over and over. Occasionally she's been leaping from plant to plant(sansevaria) just to mix it up, and she seems to take a break for 5 minutes to lap up some honey or meal powder, calms down when the lights go out, but otherwise she's been moving pretty well constantly since yesterday afternoon. Should I be concerned? It's just kind of bizarre, she's normally pretty docile.
 

the moof

New member
I don't think it's anything to worry about. She might be craving prey to hunt though.

Do you have anything on the walls of the enclosure? or are they just glass? To discourage leaping at glass, you can coat the walls of the terrarium with cork-bark. I was having issues with my gecko smacking into the walls of her cage so much that it was damaging her rostral and mental scales, so I put cork on all the walls, and she seemed much happier, and those scales healed up very nicely.
 

Benja

New member
She calmed down for a day, and now she's getting used to having a male in her tank with her. The back wall is all tree fern tile and pond armor, so it's solid, but the sides and front are glass. I'm thinking about covering the sides as well with something, perhaps cork or more tree fern.
 
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