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Post Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 12:31 am   Weird basking twitching.

Help!Vien is like twitching her head and arms while basking.I thought it might be normal since she's shedding.
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Post Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 10:09 am   

Totally normal :-) Marisa says it's got something to do with body temp. Not sure if it's related to shedding but mine all do it too.
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Post Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 6:18 pm   

Same here, mines does it as well.
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Post Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 9:12 pm   

It's starting to worry me.She's like having a flipping seisure when she's basking.Please prove to me that it's totally normal,before i start freaking out.
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Post Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 9:29 pm   

how can we prove it? its normal, dont worry about it...
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Post Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 10:41 pm   

Really it is.
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Post Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:33 am   

So that is normal? I wondered about that too. Our RES likes to twitch her legs and her claws scrape across the the stone tile and it took me awhile to figure out what the noise was. Everytime I got there she would stop and be looking at me with that "What, what'd I do?" face.
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Post Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:40 pm   

My RES does all sorts of gyrations when he's been basking for a while. It means he's getting warm enough/a little too warm, and will be going back in the water to cool off fairly shortly (sometimes he just dips his head in the water and stays on a bit longer). :)
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