About 2 months ago I took in a 1 year old B&W female. I took her to the vet and the fecal came back fine. I put her in quarantine. Saturday, I took her and our Red to the vet for a checkup. They both had fecals done and both came back clean.
I decided to put them both in the same 8X3X3 enclosure. I divided the enclosure in half with a piece of plywood, since she has been a little defensive lately. I didn't want her to hurt my Red, but want them to get used to each other's "smell".
Yesterday, my wife called me at work to tell me that she just saw the B&W jump over the plywood divider to the other side of the enclosure. The divider is 2 1/2 feet tall, but she managed to get over it. My wife tried to move the B&W back to the other side, but couldn't because of the B&W's "defensiveness". I told my wife to leave her there but, check in on them every hour to make sure that they were ok.
When I got home from work both Tegus were down for the night. I decided to look for the B&W and put her back on her side of the enclosure. I dug around but, I didn't find her. I couldn't even find my Red. I then looked around on the B&W's side of the enclosure. There I found them both, curled up together, sleeping peacefully, under a big ceramic pot.
Why would they want to sleep in the same burrow? Why would they go out of their way to jump over a 2 1/2 foot divider? The B&W actually jumped over the divider two times (once into the Red's side and then back to her side). The conditions on both sides of the their set-up are the same. They both have the same UVB, same temps( digital thermometers), same humidity (digital Hygrometers), and same food.
I decided to put them both in the same 8X3X3 enclosure. I divided the enclosure in half with a piece of plywood, since she has been a little defensive lately. I didn't want her to hurt my Red, but want them to get used to each other's "smell".
Yesterday, my wife called me at work to tell me that she just saw the B&W jump over the plywood divider to the other side of the enclosure. The divider is 2 1/2 feet tall, but she managed to get over it. My wife tried to move the B&W back to the other side, but couldn't because of the B&W's "defensiveness". I told my wife to leave her there but, check in on them every hour to make sure that they were ok.
When I got home from work both Tegus were down for the night. I decided to look for the B&W and put her back on her side of the enclosure. I dug around but, I didn't find her. I couldn't even find my Red. I then looked around on the B&W's side of the enclosure. There I found them both, curled up together, sleeping peacefully, under a big ceramic pot.
Why would they want to sleep in the same burrow? Why would they go out of their way to jump over a 2 1/2 foot divider? The B&W actually jumped over the divider two times (once into the Red's side and then back to her side). The conditions on both sides of the their set-up are the same. They both have the same UVB, same temps( digital thermometers), same humidity (digital Hygrometers), and same food.
