What is this behavior?
Hi, I'm a brand new reptile owner. I just got my girl Elo here last weekend, so please forgive my inexperience. On the whole, things have been going better than expected. She started taking food yesterday, which was a relief, and that same night she performed her first shed since being with me. I got her as a rehoming from a reptile shop. She's about 4-5 years old.
This is the first behavior I've seen from her that is concerning to me. She seems obsessed with this corner of the terrarium. Since a night or two ago, she frequently comes up to this corner and "waves" pretty frantically. Last night I wasn't concerned because she was in the middle of shedding. I thought she was trying to rub her body against the glass to loosen up the old skin.
But today she's doing is again, despite having fully shed. I am also observing her breathing as she's doing this, which seems to be pretty rapid. Is something causing her stress? I tried putting a stone in to block off that section, hoping that would get her to settle down, but she just climbs on top and does the same thing. It's been a few minutes now and she has stopped for now and is resting on the warm side of the terrarium. Please help me figure this out, maybe this is perfectly normal but I haven't seen anything quite like this in my research so far.