PhoenixtheDragon
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Hello! I have a 6.5 month old bearded dragon who seems like she'd sleep all day if I'd let her. I'm still new to the reptile world so I just want to check if I should be concerned or not.
Around a month ago I switched from reptile carpet to tile. Around the same time she started trying to dig everywhere and would usually stop once she was snuggled in her hide. Her usual daytime activities before included lots of pigging out on crickets, baths, and basking until her lights went out (and then I'd get the "hey where'd my sun go?" look). Then she would sleep on her basking spot until the lights come on again. Now she sleeps inside her hide snuggled in her blanket, but she will put herself to bed sometime between 3 pm and 6 pm and stay there until I take her out in the morning. I've tried waiting for her to come out on her own, but I'm pretty sure she wouldn't. I've given her up to 4 hours after lights on to come out, but I usually have to leave the house and don't want to go out all day without feeding her. And I feed crickets so I can't really leave them there for her to find. She's typically awake in the mornings so I'll take her out and put her on her basking spot and she'll stay there for an hour or so. Then I'll feed her and probably 75% of the time she eats her usual amount, plus some greens. The rest of the time she'll only nibble or show no interest at all. Then she'll spend the day lounging around various parts of her home usually on the warm side in partial shade, until she puts herself to bed. Sometimes I don't even get a chance to feed her a second time because she goes to bed so early. If I take her out, she's pretty active and will climb whatever she has to climb in order to look out the window, or run all around the bed, or climb up someone's head, or run across my keyboard...
I read the brumation article and saw that sometimes females brumate in the spring in preparation for mating season, and that sometimes dragons go by Australian seasons even in North America (where I am from)... But I've also read that dragons don't brumate until they are over a year old and go by seasons where they live... So I'm not sure what to think. Should I just let her sleep all day if she wants? Should I keep waking her up in the mornings? Could it be something else? Other than being more lazy, everything else seems to be normal.
She is 6.5 months old, 17 inches long in a 36*18*18* enclosure. Reptisun 10.0 tube mounted inside, new as of May 2014, which she get within 8 inches of. Basking temperature is 104-111, warm side 87-95, cool side 77-83, all depending on how warm it is inside the house and all measured with a temp gun. It is a white light. She lives on a paper towel/tile combo. She eats crickets, Phoenix worms occasionally, bok choi, collard greens if I can find them, arugula once in a while, butternut squash and sometimes green peppers, apples or carrots. Lights are on for 14 hours. No night time lights and my house stays around 73 at night. She gets baths 4 times a week and poops around 4 times a week, usually in the bath.
Around a month ago I switched from reptile carpet to tile. Around the same time she started trying to dig everywhere and would usually stop once she was snuggled in her hide. Her usual daytime activities before included lots of pigging out on crickets, baths, and basking until her lights went out (and then I'd get the "hey where'd my sun go?" look). Then she would sleep on her basking spot until the lights come on again. Now she sleeps inside her hide snuggled in her blanket, but she will put herself to bed sometime between 3 pm and 6 pm and stay there until I take her out in the morning. I've tried waiting for her to come out on her own, but I'm pretty sure she wouldn't. I've given her up to 4 hours after lights on to come out, but I usually have to leave the house and don't want to go out all day without feeding her. And I feed crickets so I can't really leave them there for her to find. She's typically awake in the mornings so I'll take her out and put her on her basking spot and she'll stay there for an hour or so. Then I'll feed her and probably 75% of the time she eats her usual amount, plus some greens. The rest of the time she'll only nibble or show no interest at all. Then she'll spend the day lounging around various parts of her home usually on the warm side in partial shade, until she puts herself to bed. Sometimes I don't even get a chance to feed her a second time because she goes to bed so early. If I take her out, she's pretty active and will climb whatever she has to climb in order to look out the window, or run all around the bed, or climb up someone's head, or run across my keyboard...
I read the brumation article and saw that sometimes females brumate in the spring in preparation for mating season, and that sometimes dragons go by Australian seasons even in North America (where I am from)... But I've also read that dragons don't brumate until they are over a year old and go by seasons where they live... So I'm not sure what to think. Should I just let her sleep all day if she wants? Should I keep waking her up in the mornings? Could it be something else? Other than being more lazy, everything else seems to be normal.
She is 6.5 months old, 17 inches long in a 36*18*18* enclosure. Reptisun 10.0 tube mounted inside, new as of May 2014, which she get within 8 inches of. Basking temperature is 104-111, warm side 87-95, cool side 77-83, all depending on how warm it is inside the house and all measured with a temp gun. It is a white light. She lives on a paper towel/tile combo. She eats crickets, Phoenix worms occasionally, bok choi, collard greens if I can find them, arugula once in a while, butternut squash and sometimes green peppers, apples or carrots. Lights are on for 14 hours. No night time lights and my house stays around 73 at night. She gets baths 4 times a week and poops around 4 times a week, usually in the bath.