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Those of you that have DT's when they start to go into hibernation (which I believe mine is, he is hardly out at all and slowed waaaayyy down on eating), do you guys turn off all lights (heat and uvb)? Cooter is inside in a cage, the low temps are down in the low 70's and soon to be high 60's, do you just keep daylight temps and light as normal and if they wanna come out, they can and bask, or do you turn off all sources of lights and keep them "in the dark" for the winter ??
In a nutshell, my set-up is as follows, inside cage for hibernation/winter months with no pretreated burmuda grass from my backyard ( a big hunk of it and the soil, like sod), the piece is barely too big and folds over on one side. He has been in that fold over for the last week or so, with barely coming out to eat, if at all. I have overhead heat and uvb sitting on top of the cage. My question: is it better to leave a little heat and light incase he wants to come out, or pretty much when our DT's stop activity and coming out, they are pretty much done for the winter and just leave lights/heat off and let the cage be room temps (68-75, night-day temps average through the winter inside my reptile room)
In a nutshell, my set-up is as follows, inside cage for hibernation/winter months with no pretreated burmuda grass from my backyard ( a big hunk of it and the soil, like sod), the piece is barely too big and folds over on one side. He has been in that fold over for the last week or so, with barely coming out to eat, if at all. I have overhead heat and uvb sitting on top of the cage. My question: is it better to leave a little heat and light incase he wants to come out, or pretty much when our DT's stop activity and coming out, they are pretty much done for the winter and just leave lights/heat off and let the cage be room temps (68-75, night-day temps average through the winter inside my reptile room)