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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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RE: Curious to when others shut it down. - mrkent, Sun Oct 16 16:50:51 2011