Brumation

[ccook94]

Is it possible in any way that a baby beardie could go through brumation?

 

[Josh]

Certainly. How old is your baby? What are his temps? Is he eating? Alert, awake?

 

[ccook94]

He's only a couple of months old. On the basking side its about 95 and on the cool side its about 80-85. Most of the time when I go in my room he's in his cave sleeping. He's not eating a lot right now, but he's also kind of shedding, so far his tail has shed, but that was like a week ago and he's been flaking randomly but nothing else has realm started to shed yet so I've been giving him baths every few days to see if that will help but nothing yet. Sometimes when I take him out of the cage he'll run all over me then sometimes he just wants to sleep on me.

 

[Josh]

Shedding can make them irritable and less active. Have you sprayed him or increased humidity in order to help the shed come off a bit faster?

 

[ccook94]

I keep a small water bowl in his viv, he used to get in it all the time and I've been giving him baths about every other day

 

[Josh]

Hmmm. And how's he eating?

 

[ccook94]

He'll eat a little but not as much as he did. I just checked and his humidity is at 30% right now and I just gave him a bath and he wouldn't sit still when I took him out

 

[ccook94]

He just ate a bunch of mealworms