Kallifornia
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- May 5, 2014
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Ok I'll start off by saying I realizing my newbie questions may be highly annoying and they may be answered already somewhere on here but I just wanted to post this while I browse and educate myself. I got my daughter a baby (4 weeks?) Hermann in March and when we got her (?) she ate right away, we soaked her and she seemed to love it. She was very active when we first got her. In the last few months she has liked her routine of morning soak and then she crawls out on her own to chow down. She was pooping regularly so I thought she was eating enough and she was very active and seemed healthy. In the last 2-3 weeks she seems VERY sleepy. I know that Hermann's hibernate so I wasn't sure if I should be pulling her out of her little house to soak her and have her eat? So for the past 2 days we just left her alone and she didn't come out at all. Now when we try to soak her and feed her she just falls asleep in her dish and doesn't eat! When we changed out her bedding (just a few towels as suggested on another forum) I noticed that her plastron and edges of her carapace were very pliable and I didn't remember them being that way before. Is this normal or a sign that something is going on? She doesn't touch the food that I sprinkle with calcium, she will only eat the dandelions and other salad greens that don't have it. We use that all in one light bulb that has heat and UVA/UVB plus she is outside all day long with a side of her enclosure in the sun and a side in the shade. I live in So Cal and right now the temp has been around 75 and sunny and I assumed she was getting plenty of sunlight but now I don't know since she just goes under the towels or in her house! Also, is she getting UVA/UVB if she's outside but not in direct sunlight? I'm so confused now that I'm reading all these websites and it seems like there's so much to know. We read a book before we got her so we thought we were prepared but now I"m feeling very bad we didn't do more research Any help, advice or reassurance would be so appreciated!