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DMong
at Mon Nov 2 16:41:48 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DMong ]
To add to the other responses, some Mountain kings will stop eating and shut down for the winter ANYWAY, because they can tell what time of season it is despite the temperature. They can tell by the shorter days of the photoperiod.
Now if your youngster will continue to eat, go ahead and let it eat, but if it DOES, you MUST give it a warm end of the cage to digest in the low-mid 80's if the other end is much cooler, or the meal will putrify(rot), and it will regurgitate..
If it doesn't want to go along with the eating program, and refuses, go ahead and brumate it if you can't get the right temperature gradients to let it do both if it wants.
If you brumate it, make sure it is cool enough too, so it won't use up it's body reserves.
~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing" 
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RE: Mountain King wintering help.. - DMong, Mon Nov 2 16:41:48 2009