>>sometimes the geographic location makes difference. My undertsanding is you are in the seirra mtn (or foothills?)at a high elevation . Whereas Jlassiter is in Texas. Also you have predominantly pyros and zonata(?) and john has mexicana.

>>Experimination is how one learns to understand the animals. otherwise we would never be having these discussions and everyone would still doing the beginners recipe.
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Yep.....all we would do here is get along, post pics and say....oooooo, aaaaaaaaa, so pretty like the BP keepers do......they have a set recipe for everything.......lol

The difference must be geographical as my pyros don't ever shut down.....I have to force brumation on them.......my males do shut down during breeding season but I think that is the result of being housed with females and their pheromones.

I have mexicana mainly but also keep zonata, alterna, pyros, knobs, holbrooki, splendida, californiae,, situla and diones........and I keep them all the same......if I kept BPs I'd probably keep them the same......lol
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

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