fatskittles":7a670 said:
okay im going to try tht thnx
what temp should i lower her cage to?
Try a basking temp of 95 degrees, and 10-12 of day light... And see how she responds, if she slows down a lot and begins sleeping a ton just keep up this schedule and don't feed her for 3-5 days then you can turn out the lights for a several weeks or up to a couple of months.
All of my dragons go through a partial brumation in the early fall which last 2-3 weeks, and when winter hits they are down for 2 months... But you should be checking up on them every day to every other day to make sure their health is good. At about the half way point or any point that they have their eyes open I take them out and weight them to make sure they are not loosing weight. A healthy dragon will stay the same weight or even gain weight through brumation... And when you want to bring them out of brumation you slowing turn the lights back on just like turning them off 8-10 at first and then work up to 14 hours a day and 110 basking temp.
Or you can leave their lights on the entire time for 8-10 a day, but I see this as a waste of light/electricity as your dragons are sleeping right through it, so just make sure you cage temps and your house don't drop below 50 degrees. The coldest I've recorded this winter in my dragon room with nearly all of the lights off was 53 degrees at floor level, and that was with a 19 degree low outside... But their internal cage temperatures were right around 60 degrees even at floor level...
There's a lot more to this, this is a very general outline of how one could brumate their dragons, and a lot of hobbiest/breeders do things differently. Over time you just need to become insync with your dragons biological clock and learn what each dragon needs/likes... It's all a learning process/curve, and every dragon is slightly different, so this is where experience comes into play.
Best of luck and I highly suggest buying a book and read it from cover to cover several time and if you forget something refer back to it or just ask the question online. But a book like "The Bearded Dragon Manual" and "Guide to Pogona Vitticeps" are wonderful resources, and then though they are outdated by 5-6 years, they have the basic material that every bearded dragon owner needs to know!
Take care,
Anthony
