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Last fall when it started cooling off (well, as much as it can in Tucson), my snakes went in their hides & stayed there - except around feeding time (I didn't estivate them), when they would all come out & wander around (hunting I assume). I'd feed them & they'd go back in the hides a couple weeks. I didn't worry about it through the winter & spring. Meanwhile, I have to keep my apartment on the dim side with mostly drawn vertical blinds because of nosey neighbors looking for trouble. My question is: It's now summer, 100+ degrees outside & 75-80 degrees in the apt, but the snakes still show no sign of wanting to spend time out of the hides! Is it the dimness of the room all day (lamps are on at night) or something I should start to worry about? Is it possible the dimness of the room could mess up their cycles? It's not overly dark, just fairly dim - the window is a south facing window too. I've had some of these 5 years, but this is the latest they have showed a lack of desire to be out of a hide.
Thanks for any info! Tim in Tucson
1/2 Corns (snow, ghost, aneury)
1/0 Emory's Great Plains Rat
1/0 Albino San Diego Gopher

Just wondering, why do you keep lamps on at night? Corns are precuspular so are most active just before it gets dark (at dusk). Surely if they have light all day and night it would throw their internal clock?

Lamps aren't on all night, just a lot of it now that the sun is rising so early. The snakes are in the living room, I'm working in the living room, thus the lamps are on. I never realized they were crepuscular though - I thought they were diurnal. Thanks for the interest!