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My puking agalma as well as my other L. z. agalmas and L. p pyros have been in brumation exactly three months, since Dec. 8. Should I heat them back up now or wait a little longer. All are CB 2007 hatchlings.
Thanks, Carl

My thought, is that since they are so young heating them up would be fine. I usually keep my babies up for the first year to plump them up, unless they are finiky, then I will brumate them for a short time to hopefully trigger a feeding response. Don't only take my advise, let a couple of people answer your question also. -----Tim

Thanks for responding Tim. All my brumating animals had stopped eating in October or November. The "puking agalma" female (my finest female by far) fed only one time, on August 18.

Hello again!

Definitely -- bring them out at this point. Considering that not very many meals were taken and the likelihood of the fat reserves in those hatchlings are diminishing over time, now would be the ideal time to do so. Hopefully you have been checking them throughout brumation? I had an '07 baby go into brumation with good body weight, and checked her all throughout. It was a 3-week period that I had not seen her and when I went to pull her out, she was VERY thin. With luck on my side and and some herp savvy, I was able to help pull her through, and even better, her feeding response is much better and has been on pinks. Keep us posted.

Jerry Kruse

I say definately bring em back to life and start feeding them.

All my adult males are have now been on heat for over a week and feeding voraciously. I'm bringing the adult ladies out in a few days.

A tip for those that are breeding theirs this year. Make sure you put the males in with the females right away after you turn the heat on. Some of the females will be ready ASAP. If they're not ready, you will know it because they spaz out when the male tries to breed her.