What in the world is going on?

[lazer]

I have a roughly 4 year old female Beardie who seems happy in a 40 gallon starter tank. I have more than enough room for her to move around in, climb, and she is in a room that has a panoramic view of the outside. As an aside. there are four large windows with horizontal blinds on each one. Three of them are easily accessible. The fourth is not, so many times I don't make the effort to open the fourth one. Also, because there are pictures of the family on that side, the sun is fading them. When I come down in the morning and open three of them, my B.D. will turn and look at the fourth window. It is very cute.

But to the problem. It is not unusual for my B.D. Lady, to go to the bathroom maybe once every two weeks. It has aways been that way. What I don't understand, and here is the real problem, is that when the temperature hits anywhere above 87 degrees, she bolts to the cooler side and stays there the whole day. I have felt her whenever I take her out to interact and she does feel cool. And it certainly explains that since she is cold, her metabolism is slow, and she is not digesting properly and therefore, no B.M. Her food intake is fine. She has a voracious appetite and I strongly believe, but can't confirm, that parasites are not the problem.

What in the world could be going on here?

 

[PatsyB]

Does she have a hide in her tank on the cool side? Maybe she wants to go into brumation.

 

[lazer]

I really want to put up a picture of my tank but my computer is down and I am borrowing my mothers' and I don't know where to upload the photos.

On the opposite side of the basking area, is a large, cut out log for her to sleep in. I have a nice, soft, feminine ( ; ) ) colored washcloth covering the entire floor under the cut out log, and more than enough space outside of the log if she wants to keep her belly warm there during our cold nights.

Unfortunately, I had to leave my wife in March. I am now staying with my mother who has a beautiful voice and sings to my little girl. Lady, my Beardie', loves my mother. Lady and I moved from a house of yelling and fighting (nothing physical), to a quiet, residential area with, as I mentioned, a beautiful panoramic view of the street, homes, people and their pets walking by, etc.

When I was at home, her tank was in a huge living room with little furniture. She slept, a majority of the time, inside the log, on the comfy, warm, washcloth. Since moving to my other's house, she has slept in the log (which is the cool side) exactly one time.

There are times when she is basking. In fact, I just left her after feeding her Phoenix Worm's and I purposely put one (I didn't use a dish this time) on the high spot at her basking site. This is where she is right now. Her forearms at a 90 angle to the surface she is standing , with her breast out. Like a soldier at attention.

I hoped I addressed your answer because when I don't get sleep (like last night) I sometimes babble.

Thanks so much for your input though. I truly hope to find a solution to this problem. I have noticed that there are not as many people on now, as when there was when I joined at the end of April, 2014.

 

[PatsyB]

Sorry about you and your wife. Sounds like Lady is in a happier place and your mom can come sing to my beardies anytime (I have a horrible singing voice and Dexter doesn't really like when I start singing to her).

Thinking more about your situation I realized that Luci, my 10 month old male does the same thing! He has a hammock and basking spot on one side, a mushroom ledge in the middle of the tank and a hammock and hide on the cool side. His favorite spot to sit is on a mushroom ledge that is attached to his door on the cool side. In the morning he does his basking and stretching ritual and then he will glass dance for a few hours but he always ends up on that door ledge on the cool side, napping. I think he does it because it makes him closer to us. Being on the door he can look down and see the cats better. I don't really know though and I don't know if it's good for him. I've angled the UVB so that he can be under it.

We've gotten a lot of new members lately which is good, but I agree some of the others that were on all the time are gone and I don't really know why.

 

[Canicke]

We've gotten a lot of new members lately which is good, but I agree some of the others that were on all the time are gone and I don't really know why.

Yeah – ebb and flow. They may be watching us. I pray they're okay

 

[lazer]

PatsyB. I am so sorry I haven't gotten back to you. I will explain my situation when I get back Saturday night.

Thank you for your help but I also wanted to tell you that I really enjoyed reading your response. I enjoy posts that contain answers as well as personal anecdotes. When I read it the first time, It made my day. You should understand why when, if all is well, I get back on Saturday night.

Thanks again PatsyB!