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[mdfmonitor]

You can change the environment without realising you have!

Cooler country's will effect you monitor as well, depending on soil depth etc, you tend to have to turn up the heat in cooler country's & this alters humidity. Also deeper soil heated from above will cool down from the bottom upwards if left on a floor.

Even with carpets etc the cold fights it's way up from the bottom, this also sends the monitor into a reduced activity state.

[murrindindi]

Originally Posted by mdfmonitor

You can change the environment without realising you have!

Cooler country's will effect you monitor as well, depending on soil depth etc, you tend to have to turn up the heat in cooler country's & this alters humidity. Also deeper soil heated from above will cool down from the bottom upwards if left on a floor.

Even with carpets etc the cold fights it's way up from the bottom, this also sends the monitor into a reduced activity state.

Hi Mark, I would have thought these details would be the likeliest explanation, too?
It`s not to suggest that barometric pressure couldn`t have an effect also, just not my first thought, more especially if it`s a long term behaviour as I thought Wayne`s monitors exhibited (or maybe I`ve misunderstood him over the last year or so) and it`s quite a rare occurrence that regularly gets mentioned?

[mdfmonitor]

Originally Posted by murrindindi

Hi Mark, I would have thought these details would be the likeliest explanation, too?
It`s not to suggest that barometric pressure couldn`t have an effect also, just not my first thought, more especially if it`s a long term behaviour as I thought Wayne`s monitors exhibited (or maybe I`ve misunderstood him over the last year or so) and it`s quite a rare occurrence that regularly gets mentioned?

All i'll say is i thought i had it right a number of years back & i spent many hours sat watching them!! I was wrong.

If your good at watching changes, by the time you've cocked the temps up etc & the humidity a number of times you start to see patterns in their behaviour, you get to a point were you look at the animal & then look at the temp gauge!!

they respond to changes in temps, their poop will tell you if the basking spot flood is right with the size of prey they are eating, again your looking at the animal then at how you need to react.

Keepers like Ben/Krusty/Crocdoc etc who've seen the whole picture as in bred them many times will know just by looking if it's right or not, The other day i re-hydrated his soil box, the temp is around 75f in there so i upped his temps to balance out cold damp dirt, moved up about 2/3c.

A day or so later i noticed he'd started to back fill his dirt box sealing himself in, really muddy water tub, then i realised some prat had left his background temps still set high.

Looked down at the temp gauge & that backed up what the monitor told me, also he'd been basking at 180f & i never notice any difference in how long he sat their but his poops were well processed!!

Sorry Stefan i went off at a tangent, but back on subject i've noticed that Lenny did start slow down when the sun in the west facing skylights did not reach through skylights any more, so i'm sure they will react to outside influences such as weather & light,

But as we both no we can fool them (maybe not the word) into carrying on life in a correctly setup environment! But again that's not to say they won't have a rest once in a while, it's back to reading your animals reactions & understanding them!!