Brumating is not for the sake of the snake, its for the direct convienence of the keeper. They can take time off working on them.



To think of it another way, kingsnakes come for areas that are cold in the winter and FROM AREAS THAT ARE NOT COLD. They only hibernate/brumate, if the conditions FORCE them too. As in, to survive the cold and lack of food. In areas that do not get cold, they do not HAVE TO BECOME INACTIVE, so they can feed and stay active year around.



In my humble opinion, keepers are fairly, hmmmmmmmmm oh heck, STUPID, to think you have to hibernate snakes. And naive to accept that as a method of breeding. They(the snakes) hibernate to survive poor conditions, not to breed. They hope to survive winters so that they can reproduce.



In that, I do not hibernate snakes, lizards, turtles, torts, of all manner of species and have no problem breeding them. In fact, I recieved three clutchs from turtles this week, One western pond and two spotted turtle clutches. Did anyone notice, its mid january. Oh yea, I just dug up two clutches of monitors today too.



But if you do it right(hibernate/brumate) it does not hurt them. But it does slow down their reproduction. Cheers

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