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hello all,
i was wondering if anyones uro is brumating at this time, also i wanna if anyones uro has stopped eating just like mine has over the last week, my uro has been in his hide for 2 weeks now and comes out very little , so anyone with opinions would be apprecaited thanks all for the reply
hay all, my uro is probably about 1.25-1.5 years old, do you think that he is old enough to go through brumation?
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1 mali uro - oni
2 bearded dragons- Trogdor "the burninator",Strom
About this time the inner clock of many Uro stells them that the time to brumate is about to come...for me its now time to quote myself:
To my opinion, all animals which brumate in the wild should have the opportunitiy to do so in captivity.
They are adapted since thousands of generations to cool winters and a resting period. I am convinced that brumation is not only helpful for breeding, as all you guys know, but that it is also necessary if you want a long living Uro.
Constantly high metabolic rates year round are nothing Uros are adapted to. Uros are popular as pets since a few years. I beg that among the non brumating ones, many will not see their 15th year, whereas Uros can reach a lifespan of significantly over 20 years. Time will show, but from my experience with other herps, which do brumate in the wild, I am convinced that it IS detrimental to skip brumation.
I never lost an animal during brumation, so if done right, its NOT dangerous.
Keeping Uros warm in winter seems to be easier and less risky.
But thats true only for short.
Many Uros reduce food intake independent from ambient temoperatures in winter. If its too warm then, they easily loose too much weight.
Thats my 2 cts
Ci@o
Ingo
My Mali I've had 5 years has "hybernated" on me before for weeks at a time. Not so much lately since we moved from GA to TX, but ya, for a while I was spilling him into his basking spot so he'd get the energy to eat and well... be a pet! He'd perk up after a while under the spot and get his appetite, but I felt like a teenagers mom kicking him outta bed.
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