Thanks Frank, I appreciate the kind words. I have to come to realize a few things. One is the amount of snakes you have to care for plays a huge part in how much you can apply to thier care as far as details. If you have more than you are capapble of handleing you may still see plenty of success but also see a downside, being snakes you expect to thrive and produce simply do not. I wish I had things a little differently, as my snake room is in my garage which means it is hard to maintain temps in the range I prefer, BUT!, this may somehow be beneficial to my snakes as perhaps on a day I feel it was a little too warm for them they felt it was optimum? I can live with the occasional failure, as long as I feel I have an idea why things did not go as planned. I look forward to this winter, as with may snakes out of the room and more time to think about improving conditions in my snake room will make this spring a very exciting time for me. In closing, I do not like the term power feeding either. It is just feeding. There's a lot of criticism from keepers who talk about breeders,,,but i see my animals thriving and they produce exceptionally healthy offspring so instead of getting too far into the debate over how much to feed I just do what I think is best, and I am pleased with the results. Tom Stevens

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