I have never hibernated monitors although I do have an interest in the desert monitors. I also live in cent. Fla. so temps here may be as extreme as where you are but I do have a few reptiles that hibernate. I keep Mali uromastyx outside here year- round and they go dormant around mid-late Nov. They have a deep sand substrate in their cage and they retire to their burrows and only come to sun themselves on really warm days. I do plastic their cage in January and February when Night-time lows go into the upper 20's to very low 30'sf. But only to buffer the effects of the extreme (for Fla.)cold. I usually remove it once it warms a little. I do not feed them at this time unless there is a run of warm weather for several days and they are active and I stop feeding a few days before the next front. I have done it like this for 4yrs with no problems. I hibernate Leopard geckoes by keeping them in their same tanks but reducing the temp in their room and I do not feed them for 3-4 months and only mist them lightly once a week or so. They will breed whether or not you cool them but produce better with the cool down. I also keep Argentine boas that somewhat go dormantin the winter. Some are kept in a room that gets little heat (low70's during the day low 60,s f at night) others are kept in a room that is about 85f all the time, either way the argentines go dormat and will not eat for about 4-5 months.

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• v. griseus hibernation - jock, Sat Oct 20 07:43:12 2007
• RE: what did you do? - JPsShadow, Sat Oct 20 09:08:43 2007
• RE: what did you do? - jock, Sat Oct 20 09:30:10 2007
• RE: what did you do? - sungazer, Sun Oct 21 15:45:15 2007
• RE: what did you do? - jock, Sun Oct 21 20:15:46 2007
• RE: what did you do? - monitormanUK, Mon Oct 22 06:06:39 2007
• Its doesnt have to do with. - SHvar, Mon Oct 22 11:08:39 2007
• RE:Lets think abou this once - JPsShadow, Mon Oct 22 11:06:15 2007
• RE:Lets think abou this once - FR, Mon Oct 22 11:44:09 2007
• RE:Lets think abou this once - monitormanUK, Mon Oct 22 12:35:10 2007
• RE:Lets think abou this once - FR, Mon Oct 22 15:21:58 2007
• RE: thanks for adding to it - JPsShadow, Mon Oct 22 14:54:01 2007
• RE: v. griseus hibernation - MadAxeMan, Mon Oct 22 07:57:49 2007
• Never saw a single species of.. - SHvar, Mon Oct 22 11:20:36 2007
• RE: Never saw a single species of.. - MadAxeMan, Mon Oct 22 13:43:15 2007
• If you read what you posted. - SHvar, Mon Oct 22 23:10:29 2007
• RE: If you read what you posted. - MadAxeMan, Tue Oct 23 07:37:48 2007
• apples to oranges. - SHvar, Tue Oct 23 22:37:55 2007
• About Apples & Oranges - MadAxeMan, Wed Oct 24 19:47:53 2007
• You still havent gotten it. - SHvar, Wed Oct 24 21:52:15 2007
• RE: If you read what you posted. - FR, Fri Oct 26 01:35:38 2007