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I have a ~2 year old Desert Tortoise who I got in March. In the first week of November I hibernated him inside after doing a bit of reading on it. Just like was expected he hadn't eaten anything in about a week and a half and was very listless.
I hibernated him in a box inside with an opening in the front covered by a blanket. I put in some shredded newspaper and he seemed happy for the first month or so.
Within the last 7 days he gets restless in the morning. I can hear him scratching the inside of his box (he can get out if he wanted to, he's scratching the back side). It's like he's trying to burrow deeper or something.
This can't be good or natural. I mean, he has to be eating through stored up calories doing this.. Did I do something wrong? Does anyone else's tortoise do this during hibernation?
Also I keep the place between 60 - 70 degrees. And he tends to scratch more in the morning when it is closer to 60 degrees, but as a test I had it at 70 degrees in the morning... he still scratched around for about 2 hours.
I hibernated him in a box inside with an opening in the front covered by a blanket. I put in some shredded newspaper and he seemed happy for the first month or so.
Within the last 7 days he gets restless in the morning. I can hear him scratching the inside of his box (he can get out if he wanted to, he's scratching the back side). It's like he's trying to burrow deeper or something.
This can't be good or natural. I mean, he has to be eating through stored up calories doing this.. Did I do something wrong? Does anyone else's tortoise do this during hibernation?
Also I keep the place between 60 - 70 degrees. And he tends to scratch more in the morning when it is closer to 60 degrees, but as a test I had it at 70 degrees in the morning... he still scratched around for about 2 hours.