hibernation

[meyfabi]

Hello everybody!
My Tégu "Enki" approximatively 3 months old and just received yesterday evening made me something strange this evening.
In the afternoon he's moving around his terra, everything was great except the moment to enter again in his terra. So after this, he staid a long moment under the light and one hour before the light stop he began to dig in his house and he's not go out until the light stop... i thought he maybe tired but...
Do you think he wanna hibernate?
In your opinion, it's possible to delay hibernation for few months or not?
In my opinion he's too small to hibernate now but i would like your opinion please!

Thanks for your help guys!!

 

[Deac77]

They can hibernate as early as 3 months I've been told with you just getting him it could either be stress or hibernation my gu went down for a week before he became more active. I didn't see him for a week strait no eating no nothing when he came up after the 1st week he was starving and hasn't hid ever since

 

[meyfabi]

They can hibernate as early as 3 months I've been told with you just getting him it could either be stress or hibernation my gu went down for a week before he became more active. I didn't see him for a week strait no eating no nothing when he came up after the 1st week he was starving and hasn't hid ever since

Ok thanks, hope that will be the same for him cause i've just sern him 1 day lol!
So i let the light and just wait?

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They can hibernate as early as 3 months I've been told with you just getting him it could either be stress or hibernation my gu went down for a week before he became more active. I didn't see him for a week strait no eating no nothing when he came up after the 1st week he was starving and hasn't hid ever since

Ok thanks, hope that will be the same for him cause i've just sern him 1 day lol!
So i let the light and just wait?

It's my first tegu and my first reptile and after only one day... :-(
Yesterday he eat 5 or 6 big crickets, everything was ok. Everything changed after i put it again in his terra. He stay under the light and began to digg everywhere and staid in his house under peat

 

[Deac77]

I would just keep the lights on and make sure he has the right temps and the right humidity but yea

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Just keep offering food and keep it up

 

[meyfabi]

I would just keep the lights on and make sure he has the right temps and the right humidity but yea

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Just keep offering food and keep it up

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thanks!! my tegu woke up at 12h30 am and after let him go under the light he eat only 3 crickets but i spend 2 hours with him in his terra and he finish under my t-shirt so that was a great day!! little scary in the beginning but the end was xtra!!!!! love it!

you speak about humidity and this afternoon i little spray his peat in his house to keep humidity but maybe a little more cause tonight he sleep in his beechwood floor, hope that couldn't be a problem for him!

 

[Teguman0301]

Don't moisten his hide where he sleeps. If you want humidity ,spray the sides of the enclosure..Too moist is not good where he sleeps.

 

[meyfabi]

Don't moisten his hide where he sleeps. If you want humidity ,spray the sides of the enclosure..Too moist is not good where he sleeps.

ok thanks! so in your opinion in need to spray enclosure to give him humidity? Here in France nobody ask me about terra humidity so just knew about his house peat but that's all :-(

Do you think that could be a good alternative to put him a small pool if he need to wash it or humidify atmosphere??

 

[Deac77]

I spray the whole cage and keep humidity up that way

 

[TeguBlake]

Get a reptile foger great investment that will last a great deal of time. Best way.

 

[Logie_Bear]

Get a reptile foger great investment that will last a great deal of time. Best way.

I've been really considering going this route myself. What brand did you go with?

 

[meyfabi]

That's strange, on my side my tegu don't wanna go in his moist house and prefer sleep under the beechwood floor...
So yesterday i put him a small pool in the middle of his terra, that could humidify atmosphere and wash it if he want.
In this time he sleep a lot. Yesterday he began to sleep at 5 pm to wake up this morning at 8h30 am

 

[chitodadon]

Its weird today too because Godzilla woke at 730am and the lights were not on yet lol early bird gets the worm

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[meyfabi]

Its weird today too because Godzilla woke at 730am and the lights were not on yet lol early bird gets the worm

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Since yesterday Enki woke up at 8.30am (the light on at 8am) and he eat very well, drink... stay under the light and at 3.pm he hides under his beechwood floor to appear again the next morning... Strange or normal? lol

 

[chitodadon]

Re: RE: hibernation

Its weird today too because Godzilla woke at 730am and the lights were not on yet lol early bird gets the worm

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Since yesterday Enki woke up at 8.30am (the light on at 8am) and he eat very well, drink... stay under the light and at 3.pm he hides under his beechwood floor to appear again the next morning... Strange or normal? lol

I have no.clue either Godzilla Comes out today at 9 and runs around so I'm going to wait to feed him when I get back home later he should be hungry

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[meyfabi]

i think that's strange... lol maybe it's cause of his young age...