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24-Jan-08, 08:03 PM
| | |  Beardy hibernation?
Hey,
I have a pair of central beardes and was wondering how to cool them off to get them to breed.They have a uv tube a spot light and a heat rock in their tank.Im afraid if i turn them all off the tank will get way too cold at night.What should i do? |
24-Jan-08, 08:07 PM
|  | I love it LOUD! Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Sutherland Shire NSW Age: 32 | | | | Most will brumate naturally, however when winter comes, drop the heat lamp hours. At the moment it should be about 12 on, 12 of, gradually drop it, say 10 on, 14 off for a few weeks, then 8 on 16 off. When the weather warms up, gradually increase again.
Unless your night time temps get under 10-15, I wouldn't worry about them being too cold - thats what brumation is all about, they go into a period of not using energy and their organs slow down (so to speak).
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24-Jan-08, 08:14 PM
| | | | Yeah but im just concerned because central beardies are naturally from a much hotter area than here in sydney |
24-Jan-08, 08:18 PM
| | I love it LOUD! Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Sutherland Shire NSW Age: 32 | | | | But it still gets pretty cold in the middle of winter in the desert mate.
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25-Jan-08, 11:20 AM
|  | Jellybean Club Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-06 Location: Hobbiton, Middle Earth. Gender:  | | | | In fact, it freezes, but beardies will bury themselves in the best possible places (that your enclosure won't provide). I never worry much about forcing burmation, as falcon said they usually will just do it themselves without touching the temps. Night temp changes are enough to let them know and often beardies may come out mid winter for a weeks basking, a few bugs, and go back into burmation ( but thats the difference between burmation and hibernation) Reptiles in the wild still come out to bask on warmer winter days.
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25-Jan-08, 11:22 AM
| | Jellybean Club Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-06 Location: Hobbiton, Middle Earth. Gender: | | | | I drop my ambient temps from 28 - 30 to 24 - 26 (same basking temp though it's on less) but only give them five hours of heat instead of eight.
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25-Jan-08, 11:11 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-07 Location: SouthAustralia Gender:  | | | | safely temps can go 26 down to 16...
Im not to fond on brumation for under 2 years...i can lead to stunted growth... what are other opinions on this
Hope this is ok as its about brumation! |
25-Jan-08, 11:55 PM
| | I love it LOUD! Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Sutherland Shire NSW Age: 32 | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by dragon lady  safely temps can go 26 down to 16...
Im not to fond on brumation for under 2 years...i can lead to stunted growth... what are other opinions on this
Hope this is ok as its about brumation! | Not sure about that. Mine went into brumation naturally at 6mths or so old, and at 12mths are the same size as known 2 year olds, so it mustn't stunt them much! I will say I do have one half the size of its siblings, but thats been that way every since they were born, so its not from premature brumation.
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25-Jan-08, 11:56 PM
| | I love it LOUD! Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Sutherland Shire NSW Age: 32 | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by falconboy premature brumation. |
I had to be careful what I typed there...... 
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26-Jan-08, 12:40 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-07 Location: SouthAustralia Gender: | | | | Fair comment... falcon boy...
if you dont have enough weight on them it is risky to their health... my preference is brumation when fully grown
i wont be everybodies... i do mum them a bit... hey they are my other kids!
PS... i wouldnt have taken it critically!... opinions are that what they are |
26-Jan-08, 12:59 AM
| | I love it LOUD! Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Sutherland Shire NSW Age: 32 | | | | I agree, not sure if 6mths is terribly good, but they did it naturally with the drop in night temps. I pretty much kept daylight and heat the same through winter so other than bumping the reverse cycle aircon heat up full bore overnight to keep ambient temps up I guess I really didn't have a choice. I think 12mths would be ok, don't know if I'd wait for 2 years though.
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26-Jan-08, 12:52 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-07 Location: SouthAustralia Gender: | | | | 2 yrs in general.....1 have 4 that are 13-14 months... will let there temps drop late Aug for 2 weeks as they are under 2..temp not under 20-22 ...,but all are not small... 34-49 cm.. 320-550 grams..2 female ,2 male
size depends on health of the reptile ...but in not way will i put them in full brumation under 2 yrs
there not built to wake up....some just dont wake up.
After this winter ,yes mine can cool down... they would have stopped growing too! | |
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