Salamander rubbing its head against the glas

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My T. Verrucosus is acting very active and he's rubbing his head against the glass. He looks like he doesn't feel good when he's doing that.. What could it be? I thought maybe he's about to shed his skin and is trying to tear it, but I want to make sure he's not sick or something..
 
if hes anything like my c e popei -it is cause hes trying to shed. he will tip his head low and just lean into the side of his box and almost look as if hes having a spasm my solution was to soak him so that the skin would loosen, he seemed to get the skin as far as his shoulder then stopped-so i peeled it up a bit (it had been like that a whole day) and he was able to get the rest off with the additional soaking.
 
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