He came to me in top condition and is incredibly charming (this is my first experience with Uromastyx so I’m still taken aback, even after 2 weeks, how attentive they are). I’m having problems getting him acclimated to my home. The first week he rarely left his cave. I tried a trick a few days ago, where I taped up newspaper around the entire perimeter of the glass tank, effectively erasing his view of the outside world. It worked like a charm; I saw him eating on 4 different occasions and he was basking all day and into the late-afternoon. However, as soon as I tried shedding pieces of the newspaper, gradually, he just fled back to the cave. This morning, he woke up at noon (like clockwork!) and peeked his head out at the greens I layed out at him; you can tell he wanted to eat, but he wouldn’t step out of the cave out of timidness. Once again, about an hour after the last time, he came out of his tank and went right to the food dish, but would NOT stop staring at me and everything else in the living room (where I keep him), and even though I tried to move slowly by the tank and ignore him, he still hightailed it back to the tank eventually.