Crestie eating dirt

Help my crested gecko is licking the Eco earth in his cage and just lays on the bottom of the cage. When I take him out though he acts normal and he took a few licks of diet but when I put him back he just sits on the spot I put him on. Then when I come back an hour later he is laying on the ground licking the dirt again? Anyone have an explanation?

Sorry i dont know crested that well. I know a little but not enough to to tell you why the animal is eating dirt. I would personally remove the eco earth and place paper towel down. Last thing you want is the animal becoming impacted.

I personally keep leachianus, pictus, leopard, gargoyle geckos on paper towel

Also there was a small air bubble looking thing on top of his head and he does have a slight disability because i was really really stupid and wasnt paying atention to what i was doing but he has made a pretty good recovery from it only sometimes strugling with his back left leg. Am I worried over nothing?

Yes I will put paper towel over it because it is late and cold where I live and I don't want to go outside to dump the stuff

I dont think it is normal for them to eat eco earth. So i would think something is going on. I just dont know what. I would go to a crested gecko forum and post your concern and see what they have to say.

Yes and I looked and we don't have any paper towels so would toilet paper work?

I would personally go bare bottom before toilet paper. Do you have any newspaper?

No.

We have had to much snow

Here's what I managed to put together I found a little bit of paper towels.

Oh and a little update I woke up this morning and by gecko was acting completely Normal and I even got some paper towels and separated him from my other male because I guess they hit puberty and started getting territorial. The bump was gone and everything was good he's even climbing on the top of his cage lol which is really really awesome but I get scared when he's up there