These past fews days, I've noticed that our baby greek tortoise, Spike, has been waking up later than usual. He normally wakes up around 9:00-9:30am, but he's been sleeping more until 10am or so. I wonder if the colder weather here in SoCal (around 63F at night and 57F in the mornings) or the daylight savings change has been affecting his sleep schedule.
Something this morning that mildly concerned me was that after we woke him up (begrudgingly for him) and placed him under the heat lamp to warm up, he started sleeping again with his limbs splayed out and head out. This worried me at first until I looked it up and found that many tortoises do sleep in this position when they're comfortable! I'm guessing this is normal, but I just wanted some affirmation.
Another thing I've noticed tonight is that he didn't really burrow, per se, but attempted to burrow and ended up falling asleep not underneath the substrate at all. I'm wondering if maybe it was because he was too tired to sleep under the coco coir, or if the ambient conditions were comfortable enough that he just fell asleep where he was (ambient conditions in the room are 79F and 62% RH). He was also awake 1 hour later than he normally is. Usually he wakes up at 9:30am and begins to burrow for sleep at 2:30pm.
Something this morning that mildly concerned me was that after we woke him up (begrudgingly for him) and placed him under the heat lamp to warm up, he started sleeping again with his limbs splayed out and head out. This worried me at first until I looked it up and found that many tortoises do sleep in this position when they're comfortable! I'm guessing this is normal, but I just wanted some affirmation.
Another thing I've noticed tonight is that he didn't really burrow, per se, but attempted to burrow and ended up falling asleep not underneath the substrate at all. I'm wondering if maybe it was because he was too tired to sleep under the coco coir, or if the ambient conditions were comfortable enough that he just fell asleep where he was (ambient conditions in the room are 79F and 62% RH). He was also awake 1 hour later than he normally is. Usually he wakes up at 9:30am and begins to burrow for sleep at 2:30pm.