when I opened Zairs cage today he flipped out, he jumped off his hammock and started running around the cage walls, he was moving his head around in sharp movments im not sure if he was head bobbing at me or looking for someplace to run, he's never done this before, do you think it has to do with him going into his first breeding season? he hasnt devloped much orange at all, just on the corners of his lips ,under his arms and sometime infront of his eyes looks a little orange.
Just yesterday he was allowing me to hold him and hand feed him while he sat on my lap.
i thought maybe the table saw in the other room could have scared him when I was cutting pipe and tileboard for his cage but i've been cutting things for 2-3 days and he just started this today, i'll check on him in a little bit to see if he's still doing it but he was running himself into the walls so I put his food in and left him alone so he wouldnt hurt himself

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jorge does this same behavior sometimes just out of the blue he freaks out he settles down as soon as he finds a nice high spot. i have just chalked it up to cabin fever for iguanas. wish I could be of more help, maybe he seen something he thought was something else?

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Is where you are working on the new enclosure in his sight? All the activity and the change in the way things look may have spooked him.

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its not within sight but he would have been able to hear the saw going, the sawas in the basement and the herp room is just a corner of the basment with walls put up around it

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1.3.0 Nigerian Uromastyx
1.2.0 Bearded Dragons
1.0.0 Green Iguana
1.0.1 American Toads
2.0.1 African Clawed frog
0.1.0 Dune Gecko Steno Petrii
0.0.1 Leopard Gecko
1.1.1 Red Spotted Newts
0.1.0 Red Eared Slider
0.1.0 Box Turtle

Hi Jade-

Sounds pretty normal for an iguana who has been recently relocated.

Perhaps he was so stressed from the move that he appeared artificially calm. Now that he has had time to adjust to new surruondings, he's decided to push you to see how much you will tolerate?

Either way, use lots of voice when approaching so he knows you are coming and not a stranger and by all means handle him when you choose too. Leaving him alone everytime he freaks out could cause a bad behavior modificiation in that he will continue to freak out on you cause he knows you will go away then.

Remember, think like an iguana, they are VERY clever creatures!

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