I'll be interested ins eeing what others think of the frig brumation: it's ironic that some of us (ok, i'll just speak for myself!) spend a couple weeks graduallyk lowering the temp from 80 to 60 for brumation for my hondos, or to low fifties for my pyros, but either way we're talking about no more than a couple degrees a day change in temps. And if I understand correctly, yours went rather abruptly from what--mid 70s or warmer? to mid 40s? Maybe these animals are a lot hardier than we think.



I've also heard people say snakes won't get colder than maybe the 50s in a lot of areas because that's what subterranean temps stay at. I know a little bit about that from spelunking days in kentucky, but i'm sure others know much, much more. has anyone ever routinely located brumating colubrids and taken their body temps? or the temps of their environment? obviously when it's zero fahrenheit in northern kentucky a black rat snake that's merely buried itself in leaves is at risk of freezing temps; i suspect there are other places it could go in the same area where the temps woiuld stay in the 40s or even the 50s.



Who's got more experience to share on these issues?



thanks

terry

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