Posted by:
DonSoderberg
at Sun Dec 24 05:23:40 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DonSoderberg ]
As long as you've been below 65 F. the entire brumation time, I wouldn't worry. You should never brumate above 65 F. When you get just low enough for them to lose their appetites, but high enough that some digestive flora still thrive, the bacteria, protozoa, amoeba, etc overwhelm the snake. When snakes are below 78 F., they have immune-suppression and are not able to fend off internal beasties.
If you have not been below 65 F. and these snakes are still being cooled, either drop them down below 60 or get them above 80 immediately. The stools you showed us are not uncommon for brumating snakes, but that middle temperate range (65-78) is very dangerous. Since you're showing us a stool, I presume they're already out of brumation so feed the heck out of them and the stools should change very quickly.
Don
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