walking in water dish

[toxictoast96]

My 3.5 month old gecko has started walking through her water dish a lot. She doesn't wallow in it, but just walks through fairly frequently when she is out and about at night. She seems healthy & has a great appetite. Is this normal? My other leo won't set foot in his water.

 

[Ehatcher]

yeah its normal ... just wait till they start walking through the calcium dish and dragging it all over the enclosure...

 

[herpencounter]

yeah its normal ... just wait till they start walking through the calcium dish and dragging it all over the enclosure...

Ugg... lol. Hate it...

 

[robin]

or just wait to see if she ends up being a water or food bowl pooper D:

 

[Allee Toler]

Or wait til yours goes to sleep in it, and drinks while being submerged.

http://www.geckoforums.net/showthread.php?t=51444

 

[Chewbecca]

OR just wait to see if she rearranges her ENTIRE enclosure by moving her hide so that it "hides" her water bowl and calcium dish.

Oh yes. I have a few cage rearrangers.
And while I think it's ADORABLE, it's a pain. Especially when it's a new gecko because I don't want to stress them out, but I have to set the cage accessories right.

Silly geckos!:main_laugh:

 

[erik]

I had to cut off part of a hide in order to get to their pooping spot and when i put the geckos back in, one could just NOT comprehend what had happened. She kept climbing up, reaching out for a platform that wasn't there anymore, she looked at me in disbelief, crept down and up again and tried once more...finally she seemed to cope with it and found other ways to get up there, so funny!

 

[ILoveGeckos14]

or just wait to see if she ends up being a water or food bowl pooper D:

I had a water bowl pooper the other day actually, it was nasty! haha

 

[STUTFL]

Mine never seems to notice the water is there unless he's drinking it. He'll just drop right into the dish up to his elbows when he's walking around - he tried to grab a mealie out of it once, and got a faceful of water.

 

[houseape57]

I love the wet feet, walk through the calcium and then go and scratch at the glass. Heck, I don't mind, what else do they have to do. Infact it gave me an idea to let them all paint a pix with nontoxic paint and let them walk across some art paper.

adirondackgecko.com

 

[robin]

I had a water bowl pooper the other day actually, it was nasty! haha

foul smell too bleh

 

[VampyricAngelX]

yeah its normal ... just wait till they start walking through the calcium dish and dragging it all over the enclosure...

Even more fun is when they dig all the calcium out of the dish to sleep in it :main_rolleyes:

 

[gothra]

I had to cut off part of a hide in order to get to their pooping spot and when i put the geckos back in, one could just NOT comprehend what had happened. She kept climbing up, reaching out for a platform that wasn't there anymore, she looked at me in disbelief, crept down and up again and tried once more...finally she seemed to cope with it and found other ways to get up there, so funny!

That's cute! It shows they do have memory and can think, doesn't it? I have a similar story; when Gel was young, he used to routinely moves from his humid hide to his rock hide around 10am everyday. One morning, I rearranged his tank and took out the rock hide. He came out from his humid hide as usual, and when he reaches the far end and didn't see the rock hide, he just stood there looking really lost. After a bit of thinking, he reversed back to his humid hide; but right after he entered his humid hide, he decided to go through the whole process once again, as if the rock hide will reappear if he starts his journey from the humid hide again! :main_laugh:

 

[SassyAbi]

That's cute! It shows they do have memory and can think, doesn't it? I have a similar story; when Gel was young, he used to routinely moves from his humid hide to his rock hide around 10am everyday. One morning, I rearranged his tank and took out the rock hide. He came out from his humid hide as usual, and when he reaches the far end and didn't see the rock hide, he just stood there looking really lost. After a bit of thinking, he reversed back to his humid hide; but right after he entered his humid hide, he decided to go through the whole process once again, as if the rock hide will reappear if he starts his journey from the humid hide again! :main_laugh:

Thats so funny. They are hilarious creatures, keep you entertained for hours on end

 

[Johno305]

or just wait to see if she ends up being a water or food bowl pooper D:

ugh...I have two of those lovely little surprises every morning before I leave to work... =P

 

[toxictoast96]

Thank you for all the reassurance that this is normal! Also, no water bowl poops yet

 

[GeckoNub]

That's cute! It shows they do have memory and can think, doesn't it? I have a similar story; when Gel was young, he used to routinely moves from his humid hide to his rock hide around 10am everyday. One morning, I rearranged his tank and took out the rock hide. He came out from his humid hide as usual, and when he reaches the far end and didn't see the rock hide, he just stood there looking really lost. After a bit of thinking, he reversed back to his humid hide; but right after he entered his humid hide, he decided to go through the whole process once again, as if the rock hide will reappear if he starts his journey from the humid hide again! :main_laugh:

ROFL :laugh4:

Sometimes i wish we all had permanent cameras in their cages to capture things like this

I still say people dont give them enough credit for how inteligent they are

And i have 1 that every now and then does a water bowl poop and its not nice but i was just glad she pooped as she can be awkward sometimes and not do anything for days. Yeah it worried me at first but if she doesnt go for a few days a nice bath and everything is going again

My babies walk through the water dish a lot and do the whole into the water, then the calcium, splat it around a bit..rince and repeat :laugh4: