Hey all,
I think Lylah really wants to brumate. She had originally slowed down on eating and soaking and spent more and more time buried and now she isn't coming up and all and refuses to touch even her favorite foods. I have been having to dig her up for soaks and she won't touch her crickets or superworms anymore. She has plenty of feisty attitude, especially after a warm soak but she runs to her cave and buries herself the instant I put her back into her enclosure. And again, refuses to come up at all. What should I do?
Leave her be and make sure she has her dish of water? Keep digging her up every few days and pissing her off to soak her? I have her UVB lamp on and a black light for heat during the day and I shut both off at night but she just flat seems like she wants to brumate.
Since she is "new to me" and I'm a new to turtle/tortoise care, so I didn't prep her to sleep all winter. What is best for her at this point?
When I asked about brumation before I was under the understanding that if I kept the temps up she wouldn't know it was time to brumate but she still somehow knows. I noticed the obvious slacking off of her appetite and her increased time buried as deep as she can get.
I think Lylah really wants to brumate. She had originally slowed down on eating and soaking and spent more and more time buried and now she isn't coming up and all and refuses to touch even her favorite foods. I have been having to dig her up for soaks and she won't touch her crickets or superworms anymore. She has plenty of feisty attitude, especially after a warm soak but she runs to her cave and buries herself the instant I put her back into her enclosure. And again, refuses to come up at all. What should I do?
Leave her be and make sure she has her dish of water? Keep digging her up every few days and pissing her off to soak her? I have her UVB lamp on and a black light for heat during the day and I shut both off at night but she just flat seems like she wants to brumate.
Since she is "new to me" and I'm a new to turtle/tortoise care, so I didn't prep her to sleep all winter. What is best for her at this point?
When I asked about brumation before I was under the understanding that if I kept the temps up she wouldn't know it was time to brumate but she still somehow knows. I noticed the obvious slacking off of her appetite and her increased time buried as deep as she can get.