My beardie climbed out of his cage 
again just to fall asleep in the plant pot that sits nearby. Those are his favorite vines on my balcony! He's pretty much stopped eating and growing weeks ago, but woke up every day and often went to bask on his own or at times I would "help" him up on the basking branch. This is the second time in a last few days that he went on top of the soil rather than just sit in the vines. I was trying to distract him from brumation but I guess that what he wants to do. BTW, he's 11 month old. So what do I do now? Do I pick him up and move him into some box inside or just let him sleep in the plant pot outside? That plant is too big to move around much. I can keep him warm with ceramic heater on the cold nights. In his cage he has a hide that he NEVER went into. Any and all suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks. Irina
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Brumation question
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i don't think that this is a brumation. he probably just finds a spot that is pretty cold and falls asleep. I have a male that like to run around the apartment. for some reason he likes to sleep either on the power cords of the TV entertainment center or the computer. he usually falls asleep there because its a colder dark place. he would sleep there for three days if i didn't put him back in his cage.
you probably don't want them to brumate outside the cage. it's not that safe for him. what if one day he moves to a different spot and you step on it (worst case senario).
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Thanks for reply. I thought about that too, therfore I put him into a box and in the house. What was unusual about him falling asleep in the dark cold place is that it was a sunny day, and he normally spends AM hours on the basking brunch and PM moves onto a sunniest spot in his cage and falls asleep there. Why you think it's not brumation?
i guess that it could be. the first winter the dragon eiter will slow down a little or maybe do a "half-brumation". it's not until the second winter, when the dragon is 1.5 to 2 years old that they really brumate.
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