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preparation coming along and anything special planned for your reptile friends??

Ours is coming along slowly but coming along, special plans for my reptile friends, not much, just allow them to sleep in and have a nibble or two on a cricket or mealie worm.

Boost

Busy ... Busy .. Busy... just like everyone else this Christmas season. Seems the more ya get done, the more it feels ya have left to do.... hehhehee lol.

As far as my lizard gang, going through the mite thing awhile ago and dismantling my reptile room , moving tons of rock and slate, bricks.... cinder blocks, made me realize it looked very cool so natural, but so impractical to move in a hurry and so very heavy for me to clean and move.

So for their Christmas present , hubby helped me to purchase everyone LARGE HERP HOTELS, each 40 gallon tank got two, put them together for cool basking sites, and they can go inside of them. They look neat and are big weigh 6 lbs each, easy to clean and move if I need to. Also got very realistic smaller rock/caves and some large terra CAVES that look like rock. A small fortune for my scaly kids to stay clean and healthy and happy I hope, lol.
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PHEve / Eve

hey boost.........jim kendrick here
do you cut back on the lighting and heat and let your collareds sleep in their tanks with the sand and rock?
just curious........i started backing off the light and slow down the feeding now. they are still pretty active. i was just curious if most people take their collareds out of their homes and put them in something else with paper towels and a small shallow water dish.
i am having one hell of a time getting something to get my temps down to 60 degrees or less. i can't do it.
i was thinking about leaving them alone and make sure they've eaten plenty......which they have........and make sure they have voided themselves and turn off everything. they seem to sleep until the lights come on.
let me know sometime if you think it can be harmful leaving the collareds in their tanks with the sand. hell they do it in the wild.
i appreciate the help as always.

Well Jim, the previous years I have controlled the heat and light as the season changes. Though my two original collared's, Bonnie and Clyde they just seem to choose to slow down. Now you add in my three new ones, Bugsy, Thelma, and Louise well they are just a bundle of energy. So I am still feeding and watering them with less heat and light than during the spring and summer. Both tanks are active this year which for Bonnie and Clyde is different but they are healthy.

Yes, I have allowed Bonnie and Clyde to remain in their tank though the temperatures never truly fal into the brumate zone.

hey boost......appreciate it man........got my shoe boxes ready to go now. backin' off the temps every day now....also they are eating wax worms for fat content. when i see there business laying around , down they'll go.
take care and happy new year