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Bluerosy
at Fri Nov 25 11:35:17 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Bluerosy ]
Yeah down in Florida cooling can be more of an issue to get them cold enough.
I know people like BHB cool for 3 months and so do many others because they can take a break from feeding, cleaning and food expenses. But i found you get better production from a short cooling period and feed throughout the winter. keeps the snaks fat and healthy. Plus a forced cooling for an extended period is just not good for ALL the snakes in your collection. Maybe some. but not all. That is what i used to do and then started leaving them in cold rooms with the heat on. most all sit on the cold side anyway. but because it is warm on the other, they have a choice...AND THEY WILL EAT. So feeding straglers, fincky feeders and borderline size sub adults is possible.
I actually discovered the whole cold room-heat tape on by accident one winter. i was in the middle of moving from The west coast to the east coast. i kept the snakes in my parents garage for the winter . problem was it got down to 35f. So i left on the heat tape. Then that spring I had all my snakes bred and more interesting..was the smaller females laid eggs. females that were 2 years old and tiny. So i wondered if small females do lay in the wild. And since they do. i adopted this way of keeping them during brumation. I think it is much healthier to the snakes and much kinder *cough Billy/Discern* to to it this way.
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- cooling - wbcrows, Fri Nov 25 08:44:09 2011
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RE: Here is how I do it... - Bluerosy, Fri Nov 25 11:35:17 2011