You can try those temps and see. Weigh your gopher snake and record her weight once a week. If she maintains her weight you are doing fine at mid 60's F. The whole idea about brumation is that snakes, being ectothermic, will experience faster metabolism at higher temps, and lose weight if not feeding, where as mammals being endothermic need more calories during lower temps, the opposite. A thing that might help is to put a cool pack (one of those freezer packs) wrapped in a towel in her tub, and insulate the whole tub with a quilt. This way you can drop the temp inside the tub to the mid 50's. You will have to probably once a day have do a fresh ice pack. Put an indoor outdoor thermometer with the outdoor probe inside the tub and the indoor part on top of the tub for easy monitoring without having to open the enclosed space anymore than necessary.
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Bob/Chris
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire

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