Odd behavioral change today.
Taco was walking around the room as normal. He tried blueberries the first time today and cantaloup yesterday. He seemed to like the latter over the former. As normal he would wander back and forth, crawl on my lap, get bored of me petting him, and then go back into his cage. When he got back into his cage today though, he started clawing at and biting his basking rock. He was biting it very, very hard; I could hear his teeth scratch against the surface and I was afraid he would break his teeth if he kept that up. I gently scooped him up and moved him over a bit. He simply resumed what he was doing. Then I did it again, and tried burying the edges of his rock to deter him from doing that again. Out of the middle of nowhere he lunged at me and tried to bite me. He missed, but then started to undulate his tail again like in one of my earlier threads. This time the notion of this being a threat display made more sense in context with what had just happened.
As I'm writing this he seems to go into interludes of trying to eat his rock, and then sleeping on it. Is Taco going through "tegu puberty"? And if so, how long does this usually last?
I was going to buy supplies to build him a permanent enclosure today (since his 40 gallon long is too small at this point), but I'm almost afraid to do so since, if he's going through random mood swings at right now, if it's a good idea to change his enclosure.
Also for the past week whenever he walks around on the floor he swings his tail from side to side in wide arcs, like he's trying to wipe the floor with his tail. I can't tell if he's doing this to help him shed the skin on his tail, or if he's scenting the room, or something else.
Oh, and he's about 10 months old at this point.
Taco was walking around the room as normal. He tried blueberries the first time today and cantaloup yesterday. He seemed to like the latter over the former. As normal he would wander back and forth, crawl on my lap, get bored of me petting him, and then go back into his cage. When he got back into his cage today though, he started clawing at and biting his basking rock. He was biting it very, very hard; I could hear his teeth scratch against the surface and I was afraid he would break his teeth if he kept that up. I gently scooped him up and moved him over a bit. He simply resumed what he was doing. Then I did it again, and tried burying the edges of his rock to deter him from doing that again. Out of the middle of nowhere he lunged at me and tried to bite me. He missed, but then started to undulate his tail again like in one of my earlier threads. This time the notion of this being a threat display made more sense in context with what had just happened.
As I'm writing this he seems to go into interludes of trying to eat his rock, and then sleeping on it. Is Taco going through "tegu puberty"? And if so, how long does this usually last?
I was going to buy supplies to build him a permanent enclosure today (since his 40 gallon long is too small at this point), but I'm almost afraid to do so since, if he's going through random mood swings at right now, if it's a good idea to change his enclosure.
Also for the past week whenever he walks around on the floor he swings his tail from side to side in wide arcs, like he's trying to wipe the floor with his tail. I can't tell if he's doing this to help him shed the skin on his tail, or if he's scenting the room, or something else.
Oh, and he's about 10 months old at this point.
