Please i need a little help

[Mitch_89]

Hey my girlfriend and i have bought some mountain heath dragons little agile buggers still eating lots but have begun to dig holes and are sleeping in them also they seem pale in color compared to wen we first got them also we have had to seperate the oldest one because it was getting bitten by the other two..... we are hoping they are not trying to hibernate already .... but is this digging and sleeping in holes charicteristic of the mountain heath dragon

 

[Tassie97]

hi i have 2 mountain dragons and they havent had any probs mine havent dug they just sleep on the log and under plants

from what i have heard they are really teritorial but mine are fine

how big is the cage ?

 

[Mitch_89]

Hey mine are in a two and a half ft fish tank what is your temperatures

 

[Tassie97]

i have 2 in a 4ft tank
there is some info >http://www.aussiepythons.com/forum/australian-lizards-5383/new-mountain-dragon-151939/

 

[Mitch_89]

Hey would the temps be differnent here coz its nsw..... they seem like they are guna be a pain in the neck to work out the temps here coz it gets pretty hot here in the day there might not be a need for a basking lamp

 

[Tassie97]

have you got a uv light you need one or this happens
eg.on a beardie

 

[lizardjasper]

Oh gosh that poor lizard!!! That is terrible! How could someone do that to such a wonderful animal? It sickens me how Naive some people are.
I've never heard of Heaths digging holes to sleep in but my beardie did it and slept in them when she was little. She's now four and hasn't done it for years. Maybe they'll grow out of it. Perhaps you need to provide bigger hiding holes for them??

 

[saximus]

Tassie is that MBD? Poor little things looks terrible. That would break my heart if it was my animal

 

[Tassie97]

i just googled MBD and that came up the poor thing i sort of put it up to scare them into getting the proper things and not short cutting

i think this will help he keeps them http://www.aussiepythons.com/forum/member/snakemadness-14424/

 

[Mitch_89]

no we have a uv light ever since we bought them we know how to look after them just they are doing some weird stuff ...... i was just thinking maybe it comes from before we bought them the guy we got them off was a typical breeder only really cared for the money he had about 15 in one tank

 

[Tassie97]

thats ok then i think one is just a bit territorial and they like to dig

oh and i dont think he bred 15 of them:?

 

[Mitch_89]

we reckon he has caught them and just said that he bred them but they were all in the one tank roughly fifteen

 

[Tassie97]

yeah they are rather hard to breed and they only have like 3 or 4 eggs i think dont hold it to me

 

[Mitch_89]

oh and what bout my temps being to high its cool end is 25 coz i cant get it any cooler and the basking spot is 32

 

[Tassie97]

yeah sounds alright for a mainland form

 

[Mitch_89]

heaps worried bout them aye

 

[Tassie97]

yeah when i got mine they are legally wild caught but it is illegal to sell and buy in tas so basicaly the only option and i was so worried that they will kill each other

 

[Mitch_89]

alright cool ill see how we go but yeah seperatred the big one she is by herself and the other two are in the two and a half foot tank

thanks for that ill see how i go

 

[Tassie97]

i got my mate a tiny one and he put it in with his big female and he came back in the morning and the male had killed the female

 

[Mitch_89]

hey thanks we will see how we go.....

ok thanks guys she still hasnt woke up though it is like she is trying to hibernate