Last year Kiana went down in October and didn't budge until spring. I would get her up to weigh her occasionally but she'd go right back into her hidey and shut down. She only lost about 7 grams (she was roughly 380 grams) .
This year she went down in early October and woke up a couple of days ago. Yesterday she turned around in her hide and kept her head up so I got her up for a weighing. She's dropped from 400 to 391 which doesn't really bother me too much (should it?), but she's become pretty active, so I turned on her UVB lamp in addition to her basking light. I also gave her a big drink from a syringe and I'll give her a bath later if she doesn't bed down again.
My question is should I encourage her to eat now, wait a day or two, or what? I don't want her to eat if she's going to go right back to sleep, but I don't want to starve her if she's hungry either. How do you guys handle this? She's getting 11 hours of daylight, FYI. I set the timer up to pretty much match what's going on outside, which she can plainly see from her enclosure.
