mini_max
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My less than 1 year old baby Russian, Max has been with us for almost a week now. I was posting with concern that he's going to sleep for the day at noon. We turn his daytime lighting on at 6 am and I was thinking he was waking up sometime around then, but no. Last night we discovered him out (usually he burrows out of sight) at 2 am. He appeared to be sleeping under his night heat lamp, but had clearly been in his water dish. At 4 am he was dozing on top of his cuttle bone, and not long after that my husband got up and saw him returning from taking a dip and turned his daytime lighting on.
So this explains why he goes down at noon! But is it always going to be so? Should I be running his daytime lights starting at 2 am, or is night waking a baby thing? Lighting appears to have no impact on when he sleeps and wakes as he just goes underground whenever he decides to sleep, so that said, will his schedule ever actually adjust to real day and night time?
So this explains why he goes down at noon! But is it always going to be so? Should I be running his daytime lights starting at 2 am, or is night waking a baby thing? Lighting appears to have no impact on when he sleeps and wakes as he just goes underground whenever he decides to sleep, so that said, will his schedule ever actually adjust to real day and night time?