My new baby arrives in 2 days

[Guest]

I will be getting my new baby on Wednsday and was curious as to if it was key to hibernate its first winter? Were born on July 3rd, so 3 months old, almost 4, I'd be guessing about 12-16 inches already. Going to be working on the permanent enclosure in a month or so, just trying to figure out if it is necessity for him/her to hibernate it's first winter. Will just keep the 12/12 cycle to see if it starts turning out for the winter if so.

 

[tora]

It's not, some people say that if they don't hibernate they become infertile though, but I don't know where there's any proof of this. Also, mine's a little over 4 months and a hair over 27 inches, so yours might be a bit bigger. lol.

 

[JohnMatthew]

I like to keep my lights synched with what's going on outside. I have pretty good lighting in the room from windows so I have my tube-light come on a bit after sunrise and go off before sunset. The MVB is only on from 10am-3pm since my GUs are getting a little scarce these days. Just do something like that and follow your tegus lead, they're pretty good at knowing what to do. Good luck and keep us updated.

 

[Guest]

Sure thing. I'm not really worried about them becoming infertile, as I have zero intention on breeding EVER. But pictures and possible youtube will be up on Wednesday. I'll post when hopefully 'she' arrives.