Stress question

So yesterday was cleaning day and everything went ok but now my pastel and lemon blast have been out and about since about 5pm and its 430 am now nothing was changed just bediding etc regualr cleaning forest floor for bedding like always so thats not it the only thing I can think of is my lemon blast male is ready to breed but my pastel is not and I had them in same tub for about 30 min while doing cleaning. Would that be enough to stess them out? Normally they come out around midnight and go back in an hour or to later so its totally out of the norm

Any thoughts please weigh in in this

Any change in the tank will likely stress them out. Same thing happened with me. I switched his bedding from wood chips to aspen. He hated it. He didn't go to bed, and was out and about. His regular schedule was thrown off. So I switched it back.

You can leave it as is, and he'll get use to it, or you can switch it back. Try putting a towel or blanket over the cage in the mean time. That usually works for me, when I know its his regular bed time, and he isn't going to sleep. It just lets him feel more secure.

Ya but I just replaced it I didnt change the one I was using always been forest floor so im confused

They sound fine. Just let them be and they will go back when they want.