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#2079091 Edgiesmama View Profile	Feet darkening? I posted this in the Garg forums, but figure someone here might have some insight as well (and lots more of you!) My garg is about three years old, and has been spending days for the last 2 months or so in his hide where I can’t see him. Occasionally he’ll be on the back wall, but today was on one of the side glass walls when I woke up, and I noticed his feet look darker than "normal". It’s obviously a bit hard to know what normal is when I haven’t seen the bottoms of those feet in a while! I do have an old picture (from maybe a year ago) of them, but the lighting isn’t great. I can tell the feet were a bit dark (compared with his underbody), but can’t make a good comparison. I sprayed the cage a bit, as per normal, and once the glass got wet he started sliding down. I picked him up, and my biased opinion is that they felt less "sticky" than normal - but he was climbing bare glass last night and this morning, so they obviously are working! I’m just a bit worried about the feet, and why they might be (if they are, and I’m not entirely sure!) getting darker. Any thoughts? Is this something I should worry about? This is the old pic I have - you can see the dark feet in the top left. It’s actually almost 2 years old, so from when he was about 1.
10/01/09  11:58am
#2079258 Audio View Profile	Message To: Edgiesmama   In reference to Message Id: 2079091  Feet darkening? When I first got my tokays (which i had adopted since i couldnt afford to feed them) one of them got black feet and lost sticking ability because of stress because of the new environment and I was handling her everyday. It can also happen from the humidity being too low. Make sure humidity is up high everyday and maybe move the tank to a more distant part of the house? More plants to hide in?
10/01/09  08:08pm

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