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She went to bed around 7 last night and its almost 4pm and shes STILL sleeping!
Maybe shes getting ready to hibernate? :cry: :hifit :cry:
Maybe shes getting ready to hibernate? :cry: :hifit :cry:
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Mine was doing that for like over 2 weeks. This morning he was up at 8:00AM. Not sure whats going on.
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I went out between 5:30 and 9 PM and when I came home it looked as if she had moved (her tail was uncovered by substrate when earlier it was most of her body that I could see sticking out). Maybe shes just feeling lazy? I really hope she doesnt want to hibernate yet Ive only had her for a week.
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My Tegu's first fall he slowed down and went into hibernation very predictably. He started sleeping in the morning and going to bed early. Next he started not coming out at all a couple days a week. It continued like this for a couple weeks until he was in full hibernation.
His second winter was the complete opposite. He started sleeping in and going to bed early, then regained activity. He randomly sleep through the day, sometimes a few days in a row, then fully regained activity. He spent abotu 5 months on this sporadic schedule only being in true hibernation for 4~6 weeks in the middle.
This year was yet different again. He seemed to go from fully active to light hibernation in a single day. He has only been out of his hide 3 times in the last 10~14 days and has been very lazy when he was out. 2 of the 3 times he was out it was for rather short periods of time (1~3 hours).
So based on my experience... who knows... They aren't always consistent and it's not so easy to see the logic or triggers that they follow to direct their sleeping patterns.
But in short, this is the time fo year for their patterns to begin to change...
His second winter was the complete opposite. He started sleeping in and going to bed early, then regained activity. He randomly sleep through the day, sometimes a few days in a row, then fully regained activity. He spent abotu 5 months on this sporadic schedule only being in true hibernation for 4~6 weeks in the middle.
This year was yet different again. He seemed to go from fully active to light hibernation in a single day. He has only been out of his hide 3 times in the last 10~14 days and has been very lazy when he was out. 2 of the 3 times he was out it was for rather short periods of time (1~3 hours).
So based on my experience... who knows... They aren't always consistent and it's not so easy to see the logic or triggers that they follow to direct their sleeping patterns.
But in short, this is the time fo year for their patterns to begin to change...
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Aesop wakes up within 5 minutes of the lights coming on. He basks and naps for a few hours, eats a ton of food, and then ends up burrowed for the night by about 4-5 o'clock--everyday--even with the light on and the cage fully heated. This has been happening for about a month now. He used to stay out until 6 or 7, sometimes later. I thought he was getting ready to hibernate (and he still might be), but he's still pounding down food and shedding weekly.
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Shes awake! Weve been having some extremely rainy weather the past 4 days I wonder if that is affecting her? I better bring her out to play before she decides to go back to bed 
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I've read articles written by snake breeders who believe that barametric pressure affects breeding patterns of snakes... So it wouldn't surprise me if it affected the sleepign patterns of Tegus...
That is part of what I meant when I suggested it's not so easy to see the logic or triggers that they follow... Who knows what 6th, 7th or 8th senses they have have which triggers response...
That is part of what I meant when I suggested it's not so easy to see the logic or triggers that they follow... Who knows what 6th, 7th or 8th senses they have have which triggers response...
