BLUE TONGUE SKINKS

I have been having some concerns in regards to my newest bluey...he seems to sleep at night out "in the open" in his cage, most often not seeking cover under the aspen or any of the hides.

Does anyone else have a bluey that just seems very "secure" in his/her cage and sleeps anywhere they happen to get tired and fall asleep?

yeah, A couple of my blueys sleep where they want.

Sometimes it's in the open - sometimes it's under cover. You skink could feel pretty safe where it is. either that or it's too lazy to dig.

Yeah....forgot to mention the lazy part!

Yeah lynyrd flits about between his log, under the chipping or tucked down the side of the baskin rock (not on it),

Right now its 11:40pm and i can see he is sleeping by the baskin rock, but i have no doubt when i awake he'll be in the log..

I decorated a cardboard box to look like a house and it says Chomper on it. That's where he sleeps. It's nice and dark. He's gettign a little big for it though..time to upgrade.

Hershal sleep in his Turtle Hut at night and until 11:35 ish the next morning! He loves to sleep in ...

The Turtle Hut is made out of hard plastic and looks like wood hide. It is big ansd he likes it, so Yeah!

mine will sleep wherever theres cover, he has a cardboard box to sleep in, but usually he goes under instead of inside.

Larry sleeps on his basking rock(night and day) and Garry sleeps in his shoe box.

yeah shingles are soo lazy mine hardley never sumerge them selves (especiley eddy) lilly just never wants to go back in her tank even in the wild iv seen shingles trying to hide in a bush with half there body out and thinking there hiding not knowing we can see them. one time when i camped in the grampians the shingles were sleeping in our cabin because it was warm there just soo placid i would pick them up and they wouldnt even hiss:D

it's like little kids - they close their eyes and they think they're invisible cuz they can't see anyone - so they figure other people can't see them.

Its the old Ostrich method. I reckon shingles hide less coz of their armoured plating

Slurpy scratches at the glass all day, and usually ends up just falling asleep in the same place.

Tattoo sleeps under the aspen most of the time. During this winter he has come out to bask and conked out under the lights. Pretty funny stuff.

jasjmm27 wrote:I have been having some concerns in regards to my newest bluey...he seems to sleep at night out "in the open" in his cage, most often not seeking cover under the aspen or any of the hides.

Does anyone else have a bluey that just seems very "secure" in his/her cage and sleeps anywhere they happen to get tired and fall asleep?

Ocho has taken to sleeping out in the open at night next to not on his basking rock just lays there does not even cover himself but when he sleeps during the day he goes into his log so seems normal to me. Sue

my skinks have always slept in a hide
never one have i seen them sleep in open

Sometimes mine just passes out wherever, but if the ceramic heat element is on you can bet he's under it for the night.

Cless sleeps in his half-log hideaway. Mint just burrows into the aspen.

Lately i've noticed Fritz sleeping out in the open next to the water whereas The Eastern female without the foot is always tucked away under cover in the corner.

with hanks its either under his bask rock or under 5 inches of repti-bark. he doesn't even bother with his cork bark hide.

I had a scare once,I looked in on Blue after lights out and he was a kip with his head in the water bowl(so I assumed),I thought he'd drowned so I took the door off and found he was sleeping with his nose on one side and neck and body on the other, "like a bridge over troubled water" que music. He has done this since but I dont panic about it anymore, siiiilllllly boy.