Striking out of aggression/defense/hunger? Something else?
Hello! So, as you may or may not know I have a baby crestie named Pocket. I don't talk about her much on this forum, though. I just thought I'd hear you guys opinion on this! We've been leaving sweet Pocket alone for a little over two months now (not handling or anything, only opening tub to mist/ change food). Here's some quick history on her (skip over this part for the question)-
We got her in the middle of January at a local reptile show (Repticon). She was just amazing! I had her in a small shoebox-ish tub. Until learning she should be in a taller tank. I went with a ZooMed Bugarium. She was in there for a while and did great! Until I kept getting an issue of mold, that is. I moved her to a plastic tub turned on its side a little while ago (month and a half ago). I followed the general rule and expected to wait a week before resuming handling to let her settle in. But she wasn't eating. So I ordered a new flavor (was eating banana apricot, now eating watermelon mango). She liked it! But then, she was used to toothpick-feeding. I just got her out of that though! (Keep in mind, I wasn't handling her this entire time). But now... there's a new problem...
So, Pocket now likes to strike at like everything. She'll strike when I'm near her tub, when I'm focusing on my other cresties tank (right beside her, they can't see each other though), she almost bit my finger when I went to grab her food dish last night! I'm wondering if she's hungry or scared? If she's mad and doesn't want to be disturbed? She always has Panga available and the last 2 weeks I offered her crickets and she ate her fill (6 first time and 7 next time)! I feel like I'm starving her, but I don't wanna overfeed her! I'm planning on breeding dubias very soon actually (hoping everything will be set-up at end of next week), so she'll be able to get more food and hopefully grow a bit faster (I've heard a lot of geckos get a big growth spurt when they start eating dubias) As of 4-22, she weighs 5g. She was 3g when we got her, so she's growing very slow. She's roughly 6mo. Thanks so much for any advice!
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