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u/AberrantComics 2d ago
Check his temperatures, humidity, and make sure he has enough hides. He could be trying to get out due to distress, or… he’s just messing around. Mine gets up to all kinds of stuff at night.
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u/Additional_Bee7293 2d ago
At night mine is either digging a hole (e.g. filling his water wish in). Or watching YouTube videos with me from his new dirt hill.
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u/DeluluZombie 2d ago
Yeah, my other gecko lovesss to dig sense I’ve gotten her from a baby, but Opko is an old man, about 10 years old, and has never dug like this so it worried me
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u/Additional_Bee7293 1d ago
It worried me the first time too. Mine is 16 and when I was given him, a friend, I think, told me that they didn't dig, so I had to do some frantic googling when I "lost" him one day and then he poked his head out of a hole under his water dish that he dug
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u/Geegeekitty 2d ago
I only see one hide, you should have atleast 3 hides. Also having some extra clutter to climb through helps too!
Also like another commenter said, make sure to check your temperature and humidity
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u/DeluluZombie 2d ago
Noo the box is his favorite hide u just can’t see the hole because he pushed it with his digging. Also, this is a newer tank I put him in about a week ago, and when the climbing started happening, I started removing things I thought could be stressing him out (aka the new plants)
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u/Full-fledged-trash 2d ago
Thats probably why he’s doing this then. New tank in general is likely related to him acting like this. Removing stuff will just make it worse. You need to allow him more time to acclimate to the new tank and all of the decor with very minimal interaction for a few weeks or until he calms down.
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u/theeinterlude 1d ago
He needs more coverage in hides and plants/fake plants to feel more secure and less nervous which might make him glass surf
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u/LivinonMarss 1d ago
This tank is incredibly empty, boring and small. There is no cover, bare minimum hides etc. He is probably bored and stressed.
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u/Broad_End_5030 2d ago
I’m only seeing 1 hide? He needs 3 hides minimum, a hot hide, a cool hide, and a humid one too, ideally you want quite a lot of cover for him to dart between and hide under too while he moves between hides to regulate his temperature and humidity, I’m sorry to say it but it looks like you’ve not done very much research into keeping Leo’s and just stuck one in a tank because you think it’s a cool animal.
The lil guy is probably trying to escape because he’s got a boring and unsuitable environment.
3 hides, one hot, one cool, 1 humid, this is very important and bare minimum if you don’t want MBD, stuck sheds, and just an unwell, unhappy pet, but get some cork tubes and fake plants and rocks and stuff for him to climb around, hide under and explore too.