How can u tell if your turtle is hibernating?

Question

If it lives in your house, not in the wild...

Answer 1

Hibernating turtles bury themselves in mud at the btoom of the tank.

The problem indoors is that the decreasing light cycles and cool water temps trigger a slowing down, but NOT true hibernation. They basically become mildly ill, stop eating, begin to starve, and can easily die.

The remedy is to offer the proper care turtles should get- large tanks of heated, filtered water kept at 75-80; good basking sites kept at about 90, proper lighting that includes some ultra-violet (note that the most useful parts of sunlight do not penetrate window glass, and artificial lighting prevents the 'shortening days' hibernation trigger.)

Answer 2

Turtles do not go in to a full hibernation. So, please keep a food supply near by! Your turtle will stop eating perhaps 2-4 weeks at a time. It will begin to sleep and seem almost half dead! It likes to hide, in the wild they bury to keep themselves warm and protected from the elements. Offer your turtle a box with a door cut in it to crawl in to.

Hibernation really isn't all that important in captivity. If it is in doors, keeping amphibian lights on it and heat is really the best thing for your pet.

Answer 3

they will try to burry themselfs completely, they will sleep almost all the time, and barely ever eat. Just make sure you offer it food still, i make that mistake when i was a little girl, my turtle was hibernating and when he woke up he had no food and died...so just keep a watchful eye!

Answer 4

well, mine slows way down in the winter months...as in not eating much and little activity. he mostly sleeps

Answer 5

its in a corner in its shell

Answer 6

Its probably dead