o.k. 59 is cool, if the temps at night have been that cool but heating up into the 80's that might possibly be an issue. That might be a change from their original coastal night temps? If the cage is not too hot during the day, that did haapen to me and is worth checking, then the other end is to put a bulb (red or dark blue) bulb at night to keep the temps up in the cage. At some point soon these lizards will go down for the winter, but usually mine would not hit the dirt until early october and eat like pigs until they got a lot of body wieght. Certianly something has transpired that has changes their normal activity, I think 59 is cool, maybe some others might chime in on that as well. 70degrees would be better at night. The change in temps being drastic from cool to hot during the day may have been part of the issue........ Don't for get a 85 degree day can have 100 degree ground temps. While most of the time hornbed lizards need the higher ground temps before they feed but 90 can be hot enough to radiate a lot of high ambient temps of the substrate and make it uncomfortable without shade, which you did say you had shade, but check this all out....Cheers!!!
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