It’s important to monitor your Reptile if it does go into hibernation and of course you will know if it is a Reptile that hibernates when you first aquire it, it’s very important to recognise if it is a hibernator and how to deal with this period of the year.

It’s important to make some plans for the Hibernation and make a safe draught free comfy place for the Reptile to go. This can be a simple box or container in it’s normal habitat.

The temperature needs to be reduced slowly until the ambient temp is around 10-12 dgrees centigrade. You dont need complete darkness, butI would lower the light to help.

Keep checking your reptile every week or so and just monitor it’s weight and general appearance of it’s skin, if it’s very dry then you can soak the skin or just dab with a damp cloth.

Keep an eye on it’s breathing and especially the nose and eyes to check they’re clean, dont worry you wont disturb it !

Reptiles can hibernate for anything from a month to 4-5 months a year but again you need to know what is best for your species. When it’s time to wake the sleepyhead up then slowly increase the temperature over a few days back to normal and this should start to increase it’s activity and slowly begin to eat again