Tortoise constantly climbs?!

[Turtle001]

Hi there , so I've had my Russian Herbert in a larger enclosure for a while, it's about 5 feet by 2.5 ish a great improvement from his previous small glass cage but recently he seems Frantic. I know his cage isn't very stimulating he has a hide some decor flower pot rocks and a water dish but recently he seems more and more agrivated. In his glass enclosure he used to stay in his hide all day and now he moves around quite often but he has Begun to try to climb the walls constantly. I tape up the lining of his enclosure bottmtonthe walls but he keeps going into the corner near his heat lamp and just tearing it down then digging and digging and hitting the coner trying to get out to the point where I'm afraid he might hurt himself. I moved some rocks in front of it but he shoves them away. He also snaps at my fingers sometimes now too and when I move him away from the corner and set him down away from it he makes very fast lunging moves forward then goes back to the corner. He loves to try and climb the wall and refuses to stop. I'm worried about why and if he's getting agressive. He will not stop climbing. please some help thanks so so much ? I tried to attach a video of him here after he tore down the tarp

 

[wellington]

Try making the substrate deeper and see if that helps. They like to burrow and it sounds like he wants too. My Russian used to sleep behind his hide. I hung some weeds in his enclosure that I was actually trying to dry for winter food. He has now dug a little burrow under the weeds and that's where he sleeps. He comes out to eat, the second he hears me, where before he would take his time. I think I lost the winter weeds for food, as I couldn't think of taking his new sleeping hide away.

 

[lisa127]

When I used a tarp on the bottom my boxies did the same thing. She seemed to think she could climb it or something.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I'm going out on a limb here now....
Could he be snapping at you and trying to escape because of a condition that exists inside his enclosure?
Are you using the correct types of lighting and are your temperatures correct?
No irritants in the substrate?
I could see him snapping at your fingers if he couldn't see well or if he is just pi-sed off. etc.
can you take photos of the new set-up?

 

[Yvonne G]

Double check the temperature in the new habitat. It might be too hot/cold.

If everything checks out ok, then it's probably just the new territory thing. Tortoises are territorial. He's been moved out of his territory and into a new one. He wants to go home.