You are very welcome.

After my hatchlings are hatched I will generally keep them feeding for that autumn and winter. I will them brumate them the next season as most of them will be of proper breeding size by then. However, there are times when I will brumate juviniles. Unfortunately, brumation does alway start when we as keepers want it to. Sometimes juviniles will be triggered into starting the brumation proccess. When this happens, they will go off feed. When they do this, I would rather cool them down to brumation temperatures so they are not as active. If you keep them at normal active temperatures while they are preparing to brumate, their metabolism will stay running at full tilt without feeding. This will cause some noticable weight loss, especially on juviniles.



And Frank,

You did state that mexicans and westerns are 99% alike when in fact they are pretty far removed from eachother.



This is what you wrote



FR says:

"I also have some westerns, which are so very similar and like with many species recent naming, I do not agree with the different species labelling. I am a fan of the old subspecies thing. I mean, its not about all this science, or people making their own reasons to call something something else. SImply put, western hogs and mexicans are 99% alike"



This paragraph is based 100% on your relic type opinion and elevating mexicans to full species status is based on molecular testing an scientific data. I am pretty sure what info most people with a half of brain will go with.



So you do not agree with the scientific data that makes mexicans their own species? What is it that makes you disagree?



By the way, this is a public forum and I can interject my opinion if I fell the need. If you want to talk privately to one person, make a phone call or write an email.

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