Quote Originally Posted by John1982 View Post
That's different from my personal experience. Mine seem to take their cues more strongly from the photoperiod than actual temperatures. They start going down in August. Temperatures are still getting into the high 90s, or even low 100s, during the days. If I maintained them in "supportive" conditions as you put them then I'd end up with half starved, or dead, tegus by the end of the season.
I guess I am a little confused, so this may be a dumb question, I know that if you brumate them they will burrow, but aren't they still somewhat active in brumation? The only animal I have brumated was my skinks so it may be completly different, but even though they were brumating there were still somewhat active and move around the cage from time to time, drink water etc, which is why I would think you would still want to provide a larger cage for them. Is this not the case with Tegus? Mine didn't brumate last year so I haven't had any experience with this yet.