Cold Spells and Sleeping

[Noella]

For the past few days, we've been having some Arctic Cold temperatures not in the minuses, luckily. It's just been so cold every single day. Our house goes below 65 at night. I've got the bird and roaches covered up preventing a cold drafts into the cage and bin. I even have substrates in the roach bin.

The daytime temps climb up to 67-68 degrees during the day because of the sun helping us warm up the house. However I've noticed that Maya has eaten very little greens and is eating her roaches. (She is starting to shed) She hasn't eaten much tonight and around 12 PM, she decided to go into pre-brumation. I know she's clear of pinworms and coccidia. Her poops are still a bit well hydrated and are normal. She will go under her paper towels and try to pre-brumate. I have her lights on at the same time every day. I'd take her out and let her sleep on me to warm up because she doesn't wish to go under her basking lights. After a while, she'll be basking and then later on, she'll try to pre-brumate again. I'm hopeful when it gets a bit warmer, she'll stop.

She's not old enough, I'm told. She's 9-10 months old now and I have heard they go through pre-brumation.

 

[PatsyB]

I'm going through the same thing with Luci. We have the below zero temps. He sits in his hammock the whole day with very sleepy eyes. He hasn't pooped in his tank, once every 3 days or so he will get hungry and eat a bunch of worms and some salad but other than that i can't get him to eat or move around. Yesterday morning he was laying on the bottom of the tank and he was just fighting closing his eyes. I put his large log hide over him to show him that it's okay to go under it and close his eyes and 5 min later he crawled out of it. He hates being covered unless he's hiding under the couch!

He did this last month with the below zero spell and as soon as the weather warmed a bit he was back to running around his tank. So I'm hopeful this is just a phase.

 

[Noella]

It probably is. I've got her sleeping on me right now. She looked around and went back to sleep. She is sleeping on me now.

 

[Noella]

She ate a little bit of greens with some bee pollen.

 

[PatsyB]

Luci got real hungry yesterday and ate 12 superworms and some hornworms I normally would have stopped him but he hadn't wanted to eat in 3 days.

 

[Noella]

She's active now. I put a thermometer probe to see what her basking temp is. 97 degrees.