Sleeping behaviour

[Dakota_Ghost]

Hi all,

I'll start by saying that I'm a new owner and I apologise if this may be a silly question, but... I've had my new leo for 5 days now and she seems to be settling in very well. I have noticed though that for the last few days she has chosen to sleep in more exposed areas of her home, not so much under the hides and logs. She still likes to hide, but sometimes she leaves half her body out in the open. I'm taking this as a good sign; that she is settling in well and is very relaxed. Also, she splays all of her legs sort of outwards and directionally backwards and curls her toes upwards (so that the palms of her feet at facing up). I'm just wondering, is normal? It could be that she is simply sooooo relaxed that she doesn’t care about curling up so much anymore. Also, I have thought that she does this behaviour sometimes in order to absorb the heat from the heatmat better. Any thoughts?

Dakota

 

[acpart]

There is a thread on here with photos of geckos sleeping. See if you can find it and you'll see things similar to your gecko.

Aliza

 

[Dakota_Ghost]

Ah I think I may have found it. Yeah she looks like that some of the time I guess there's no need to worry. Leo's just have the funniest of sleeping positions.

 

[chachasushi]

I have one that does the same thing. He would never make it in the wild...

 

[ez2animate]

Yeah, thats how mine sleeps too. sometimes he sleeps with one in front and one behind, other times both.

 

[corvettefan]

My geckos sleep in funky positions. You have to remember that they're reptiles and much more flexible than anything else out there.

 

[Holly12]

My girls sleep very weird sometimes lol oneday I was coming up to the cage and one of them had one leg out and one leg in and I thought that something was wrong so yeah they can sleep in silly ways sometimes.

 

[VampyricAngelX]

My male Dante sleeps in all sorts of crazy positions. Found him half in his calci dish today...

 

[Krow]

Yeah, thats normal & its also cute & funny. Sometimes I picture them with a calcium hangover & thats why they're sleeping like that, haha

 

[VampyricAngelX]

Yeah, thats normal & its also cute & funny. Sometimes I picture them with a calcium hangover & thats why they're sleeping like that, haha

haha you'd think my male Mikko was a calci addict by the looks of his tank some days. He'll get into his calci dish sometimes and dig it out all over the place >.<

 

[daleo]

my larger female ruby will sleep with her back legs streched as far as they will go to the front of her body wil having her front legs streched out to the back of her body! lol she is very funny! normaly will sleep in hides but normaly every day you wil find her sleeping in the open.

dale