Last fall when I began brumation for my kings and pits I was a bit concerned that the temperatures would ever fall low enough, as several weeks went by with warm temps. It was a really long gradual cool down, though, which is a good thing. Then the temps fell off a cliff and it was a big chore to keep the indoor temps in my cabin in the mid forties at night! Outdoors it got down to 10 degrees F at night one night, averaging 12 F to 15 F below most nights recently. Average normal is the low 30's F in my neck of the woods. All my snakes are doing fine.

My mouse colony has done well in the old unheated but well insulated RV. Today is mouse tub washing day, an outdoor chore. My hands don't like that, but with a big pan of hot water its not so bad, and the mice always look so happy with clean quarters.

The only casualty I have had is an outdoor pipe valve cracked because I forgot to cover it.

Wht have the rest of you experienced with these arctic temps?
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

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