Retf behavior raising concern

[blightedchemist]

I have two red eyes living in one of those really neat exo terra tanks, Had them for...since the end of may. They have been living fine, perfectly fine, eating pooping, chirping here and there very livley at night.
Yesturday, one of my red eyes(sloth) descided to take her daytime nap on a vine out in the open-ish under the tanks day light. Thought nothing of it, except that when they sleep durring the day they usually stick to the glass or the background the tank came with.
Came home from work 9 hours later looked in and noticed that sloth was still there, however my heart skipped a beat when I noticed she looked like a shrivled raisin and appeared convincingly dead. I picked her up(after I washed my hands) and she lay there still, but then came to and jumped with vigor back into her tank onto the foliage I have throughout the tank. I sprayed her to get her hydrated, she started to look better but still doesnt seem quite right.
shes still resting on the foliage rather than the glass or back wall. Her skin seems different from her pertners still, more smooth and leather like.
-No weight loss
-when I check on her shes still got all the energy in the world
-humidity of the tank stays between 60-80%
-temp about the same 60-80 id have to look closer though
should there be reason for concern? thanks for your help

 

[downthebeatenpath]

Couple questions, how often do you spray the tank? Do you have a water bowl for them to soak in? Do you have live or fake plants? If live is that the reason for the light, or is the light for viewing, or for heating?

 

[blightedchemist]

fake plants, i spray...hm four times a day untill stuff starts to drip mostly, two water bowls for soaking, the light is used for heating and viewing, i have two fixtures one for day time the other for night time, otherwise there would be very little difference between night and day given the location of the tank.

 

[downthebeatenpath]

Hmm, that is odd, the only reason I could think that she would shrivel up like that is lack of soaking spots, how many hours is the light on for?

 

[blightedchemist]

perfect 12 day 12 night, on timers. theres plenty of humidity and soaking spots. what seemed to be the problem is the little girl found the wrong spot to take her daytime nap right in the open under the daytime light. ive since(and will imporve upon it today) moved things around to avoid hot spots like the one she found. As it seems now, she just needs a lot of water and rest. When I checked on her last night she seemed a bit lethargic, but that could have been because I woke her up. the little ray of sunshine and hope does come when she wakes up fully and hops away with gusto. so shes still got tons of energy.

 

[downthebeatenpath]

Well that's good to hear, yeah I was gonna say to probably just move stuff around, good job.

 

[blightedchemist]

moved stuff around, put in more plants, a second pond, put HER in it...seems blissfull the moment...

 

[Ian S.]

Both reptiles and amphibians especially, do not typically feel heat they more or less sense it thermally. Salamanders for example (pretty neat fact)... salamander is greek for "fire lizard" they hold enough liquid in their skin as to where the "lucky ones" hiding in logs would be thrown onto fires & would come crawling out. The same goes for the red eyes. They find a nice warm spot to regulate body temperature and can withstand the heat long enough to doze off. When the heat is to strong it dry's the frog out so fast that the frog enters a dehydrated comatose state before it can wake up. I've kept red eyes for years in a 10 gal.tank w/ a full hood and nothing for a heat source other than the flourecent light. Hope this helps:main_thumbsup: