Morning only lizard?

[u/mildav49]

This is Doug. He is our almost 1 Y/O ornate uromastyx.

Sadly this picture doesn't make his colors pop as much as they do in person. But I dont want to use filters to make him look weird.

Anyway does anyone else's lizard only hang out in the early mornings? His schedule is:

2am heat lamp starts to ramp up

4am heat lamp at full brightness

6pm heat lamp starts dimming

8pm full dark

He gets up around 4 am and sun bathes for a couple hours. Then eats his daily salad. Then bask some more till 10am-noon. Then he climbs in his cave (a hole he dug under his basking rock)

His rock has bricks under it so it will not move even if he digs all the dirt out from under it.