Something strange is going on with Cedar, tonight after feeding, he/she didn't eat much, he/she burrowed into a different spot, usually where I put the water dish so after cleaning it I had to put it on the opposite side, after turning on the moonlight lamp ( usually do that about an hour before I shut off all lights to go to sleep) I noticed that Cedar wasn't in the substrate but near the side of the enclosure, normally he would be settling in and relaxing. Anyway about an hour after lights out I hear the scraping noise and light banging like something is hitting a window.

I get up and Cedar is up against the side of the enclosure trying to climb out.. he has never done that in the 3 weeks I had him. I turn on his moonlight so I can see a bit clearer on what is happening thinking maybe a spider or something got in, it's starting to warm up so I have to keep an eye out in case they get in the house, anyway he hops away from the side and takes a pee, yes I could see him do it, so he moved away from that spot and I thought whatever was going on was done. Not so.. no sooner do I turn out the light and he starts scraping and banging on the same side again.

So at 3am I am changing out his substrate, scrubbing his bowl and plant, and I even went so far as to dump the jug of treated water I made yesterday as a just in case and made up a fresh jug. Well I was hoping that was going to help, I thought maybe it needed to be change from waste build up under the soil I couldn't see and that would help solve whatever it was causing him to act abnormally. Well it didn't. Again he was all over the little tank, I had reset everything back to its normal places before putting him back in there. But he is now just sitting in his dish.. and when I looked in there the water had a greenish tint to it, and it was crystal clear when I put it in and before he got in the dish. It has been about an hour and he is still sitting in that dish...he has turned from facing the wall to facing out into the room and is breathing a bit faster then normal.

Does anyone know of any reason he could all of a sudden act this way? I checked the crickets I used to feed him tonight after he refused the dubia and went so far as to trample the one or two I dropped into his feeding box tonight by accident. The crickets don't seem to be moving right either, like something is wrong with the back legs, idk if it is something to do with that or not but I just had finished cleaning out their box and changing the food and adding fresh water crystals too. In a few hours I am going to dump the lot of them and rescrub/sanitize the cricket box and then get a few dozen from the pet store and order some more from the Carolina Cricket place I ordered from before. The only other thing that has changed was that I upped the humidity in his tank from 65% to 70% but I really don't think that would cause this to happen.

Hopefully this is nothing serious as the Herp/exotics vet isn't in on weekends and the emergency rescue vet doesn't have exotic animal experience.