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RE: Curious to when others shut it down.

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Posted by: mrkent at Sun Oct 16 16:50:51 2011   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by mrkent ]  
   

I am in Washington State, and my gray-bands have shut down, so I have turned their heat off. My snake room is an un-heated spare bedroom, and with the window open a couple of inches the night time temps are getting to the low 60s.



I have turned off the heat for about half of my gray-band hatchlings. Some have not taken their first meal, and I don't want them to burn up their reserves. The hatchlings that are eating I will continue to provide heat for.



My male rubber boa stopped eating for the year in mid-June, while the female ate sporadically through most of August. I have them on the floor and they only had supplemental heat for the spring and early summer.



My corns are still eating so I will probably wait until at least Thanksgiving until I cut back on their feeding prior to turning off their heat.



Last winter was my first to have a dedicated snake room, and the winter temps stayed mostly in the upper 50s to low 60s. Everything did just fine.



Here are a few of mine. Sorry no milks currently.
























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Kent



1.1 Hypo (het lavender, striped) corn snakes, 2010

1.2 Gray-banded king snakes, blairs phase, 2008

0.0.17 Gray-banded king snakes, 2011

1.1 Oregon rubber boas, w/c 2000 and something



Colossians 3:17


   

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