Hello, first post on this cool and useful forum!

looks like I’ve caught some kind of disease!

it started a month or two ago, at a local reptile fair.
I came home with a beautiful baby, a lesser het pied female.
She is very gentle and chilled, but eating like a demon on frozen/thawed rat fuzzies.
She’s already much heavier. And I’m in love!

Then after too many YouTube videos and too much forum scouring, the disease set in.
Last Saturday I took a seven hour drive to Hamm, Germany, to Europe’s biggest reptile fair.

There I got Mr Bitey, a stunning banana/coral glow Enchi Mojave september hatchling.

his behavior when I got him home was different. Very defensive ‘f-off’ pose, and a few attempts to tag me. My theory is he’s mega stressed. Uk to Hamm, Hamm to Denmark (where I am), new enclosure... lots of reasons to be freaked. He didn’t even hide for the first two days.

Now he in his hide behaving more ‘normally’. I’m leaving him completely alone for a week, not trying to feed him or disturb him.

First time I’ve seen tagging behavior, I’m new to this, so just looking for assurances that this is all normal, and that he won’t be a bitey baby forever!

Husbandry is all good I think, they’re in tubs with under the belly heating + thermostats, heat gradient, two hides, small water dish, good humidity levels.

thanks for reading if you got this far!