Hi all,
Just this week, Benni (almost 11 months old) started keeping strange hours. I have her on a 9am to 9pm lights schedule and she normally takes about twenty minutes to wake up, come out of her hide, and bask on her own. In the last week she started staying in there for up to two hours in the morning (which is how long I wait before taking her out myself and putting her on her rock). Sometimes she'll stay on her rock until lights out, sometimes she'll get back off after five minutes and hide again, and other times she'll stay up until about 5pm and then go hide (and fall asleep). Last night I moved her out of the hide and wrapped her in a blanket so that she would wake up outside the hide instead, but when she woke up this morning she just left the blanket and went into her hide right away. She doesn't usually go to sleep immediately, she just sites by the opening and peeks out until she gets cold and then falls asleep.
She's still eating bugs and pooping normally (and lots of white urate) and she's alert and active when she's up. Her basking rock temp is around 100 (I've experimented with making it slightly warmer and slightly cooler and it doesn't seem to make a difference) and her ambient temp is usually around 80. She has a T5 reptisun 10.0 uvb light with a reflector.
This morning I removed her from the hide and took her to sit in the sun on my bed and she black-bearded at me for the first time. Not sure if this is potentially relevant but it seemed weird.
She has also stopped eating her salads the last few days, or at least is eating a lot less of them even though she was loving them for the last few months. Thoughts?
Just this week, Benni (almost 11 months old) started keeping strange hours. I have her on a 9am to 9pm lights schedule and she normally takes about twenty minutes to wake up, come out of her hide, and bask on her own. In the last week she started staying in there for up to two hours in the morning (which is how long I wait before taking her out myself and putting her on her rock). Sometimes she'll stay on her rock until lights out, sometimes she'll get back off after five minutes and hide again, and other times she'll stay up until about 5pm and then go hide (and fall asleep). Last night I moved her out of the hide and wrapped her in a blanket so that she would wake up outside the hide instead, but when she woke up this morning she just left the blanket and went into her hide right away. She doesn't usually go to sleep immediately, she just sites by the opening and peeks out until she gets cold and then falls asleep.
She's still eating bugs and pooping normally (and lots of white urate) and she's alert and active when she's up. Her basking rock temp is around 100 (I've experimented with making it slightly warmer and slightly cooler and it doesn't seem to make a difference) and her ambient temp is usually around 80. She has a T5 reptisun 10.0 uvb light with a reflector.
This morning I removed her from the hide and took her to sit in the sun on my bed and she black-bearded at me for the first time. Not sure if this is potentially relevant but it seemed weird.
She has also stopped eating her salads the last few days, or at least is eating a lot less of them even though she was loving them for the last few months. Thoughts?