The corns that live in Florida may never experience temperatures cold enough to brumate at all. Corns comming from the northern part of their range may get very cold in some areas. If they have found a good place to spend the winter it may not get below zero but I'd bet they certainly get below freezing.



If you are going to brumate, the worst thing you could do is leave them too warm. Mid sixties and low seventies, and their metabolism will not slow down enough. The bacterias in their stomach will still be active. I think if you can't get them below 60* you should not brumate at all.
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• Does it make a big difference if I cool my corns or not? more... - poisonfrog420, Mon Dec 15 22:50:02 2003
• RE: Does it make a big difference if I cool my corns or not? more... - kevmimcc, Tue Dec 16 00:23:08 2003
• RE: Does it make a big difference if I cool my corns or not? more... - Turtlegirl, Tue Dec 16 21:10:16 2003
• RE: Does it make a big difference if I cool my corns or not? more... - Amanda E, Tue Dec 16 06:41:04 2003
• RE: Does it make a big difference if I cool my corns or not? more... - patricia sherman, Tue Dec 16 08:58:06 2003
• RE: Does it make a big difference if I cool my corns or not? more... - Amanda E, Tue Dec 16 15:04:01 2003
• Side Note... - wizbang, Tue Dec 16 08:47:15 2003
• i didn't brumate mine - IcedGoddess, Tue Dec 16 09:24:52 2003
• Think about corns in nature... - wade, Tue Dec 16 16:30:46 2003
• RE: Think about corns in nature... - kevmimcc, Tue Dec 16 18:52:46 2003
• they don't - draybar, Tue Dec 16 19:49:36 2003
• right - IcedGoddess, Tue Dec 16 19:28:58 2003
• brumation - draybar, Tue Dec 16 20:13:33 2003
• RE: brumation - IcedGoddess, Wed Dec 17 09:19:31 2003
• RE: brumation - draybar, Wed Dec 17 18:07:16 2003
• RE: Does it make a big difference if I cool my corns or not? more... - pinatamonkey, Tue Dec 16 18:15:45 2003
• NO - jyohe, Thu Dec 18 17:25:40 2003
• RE: NO - aplaxco, Thu Dec 18 17:40:26 2003