Calcium Throwing?

[Daedric1]

About two weeks ago, my female (about 1 yr old and 54g) started digging all of the calcium out of her calcium dish. She's in a 15gallon tank with slate tile, with temps ranging from 75 - 92. She's never mated.

Every time I put new calcium in there, not 10 minutes later, nearly all of it is flung across the cage. She's getting plenty of calcium through her dustings, so I'm thinking about removing the dish for now to avoid this. I'd say it's funny and kind of cute, if it weren't so annoying to clean up after. :main_rolleyes:

She's not digging up the moss out of her humid hide either. Just the calcium (and once mealworms).

Anyone else ever experience this? Kinda wondering why she's doing it.

 

[Dog Shrink]

I'd make her a little litterbox/playbox to see if it's a substrait issue, bordom issue, or calcium issue. My leo doesn't like his moss at all so maybe thats why she's not digging in the moss, but loves his litterbox and will go in there and some days there's sand kicked all over the top of his hide (big slate rock). He had fun Maybe if you find out what's tripping her trigger you can adjust your substrait to suit for your moist hide or add a play box. Sand won't hurt as long as she's not eating in it or licking it. I never see or notice that Eros has licked or eaten sand from his litterbox. if you're uncomfortable with sand then maybe some sort of hatching substrait... can you use vermiculite in a humid hide? This way you can leave her calcium dish in the tank and provide another form of stimulation that will make her happy. When I put my tank together I wanted to make sure that I had representitives of all the natural habitat he would encounter if he were wild. Lots of rock, tile and wood, even some sand safely used.

Hope this helps

 

[roger]

About two weeks ago, my female (about 1 yr old and 54g) started digging all of the calcium out of her calcium dish. She's in a 15gallon tank with slate tile, with temps ranging from 75 - 92. She's never mated.

Every time I put new calcium in there, not 10 minutes later, nearly all of it is flung across the cage. She's getting plenty of calcium through her dustings, so I'm thinking about removing the dish for now to avoid this. I'd say it's funny and kind of cute, if it weren't so annoying to clean up after. :main_rolleyes:

She's not digging up the moss out of her humid hide either. Just the calcium (and once mealworms).

Anyone else ever experience this? Kinda wondering why she's doing it.

One of my super snows threw his calcium all over the place during the night.It was quite dusty and inhaled alot of the dust which in turn caused some respiratoy problems.I had to put him down.I dont leave dishes of calcium in my enclosures.I shake and coat my crickets with calcium instead daily

 

[rubym]

I have a male that seems to do that all the time. He dumps it out then licks it off the tile when he wants some, lol.

 

[sausage]

I'd make her a little litterbox/playbox to see if it's a substrait issue, bordom issue, or calcium issue. My leo doesn't like his moss at all so maybe thats why she's not digging in the moss, but loves his litterbox and will go in there and some days there's sand kicked all over the top of his hide (big slate rock). He had fun Maybe if you find out what's tripping her trigger you can adjust your substrait to suit for your moist hide or add a play box. Sand won't hurt as long as she's not eating in it or licking it. I never see or notice that Eros has licked or eaten sand from his litterbox. if you're uncomfortable with sand then maybe some sort of hatching substrait... can you use vermiculite in a humid hide? This way you can leave her calcium dish in the tank and provide another form of stimulation that will make her happy. When I put my tank together I wanted to make sure that I had representitives of all the natural habitat he would encounter if he were wild. Lots of rock, tile and wood, even some sand safely used.

Hope this helps

this dose sound like a bordom issue to me. leos love to nose around things and dig holes just to see if they can find anything lol its sooooo funny to watch them digging. :main_laugh:
i have kept leos on sand for many years and have never had any problems.
i always use a non-dyed fine grade sand, and i know a few of them have eaten a little of it when catching their food but it ALWAYS come out coz you can see it in their poo. however i have had problems with them eating hatching sudstraits like vermiculie! it dose impact them as it swells inside.