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i live in a appartment and theres no way i can keep my snakes at 55 degrees for a full 3 months the outside temp durring the winter is way to cold and i was wondering if anyone has any ideas on how to cool a enclosure or how i might go about brumating my snakes i know its not that time yet but i just want to get some info for later on

Very often in apartments, the closets don't have heat vents. If you can find a closet without heat, you can put them in the closet and try to leave it closed as much as possible in the winter.
It doesn't take three months for most species. You can generally get by with 8 weeks of brumation and two weeks on either side for cooling down and warming up.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

thanks i hope when it starts cooling down i can figure out how cool my room gets cause thats what i was thinking too. but me and the woman dont wanna freeze this winter

Now do we have to tell you and the woman how to keep warm too?
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Steve W.

i think we have that figured out thanks

Another angle may be to keep species that do not require such low brumation temps.

For example, I've bred Calif kingsnakes for years with a Winter cooldown not lower than 60-65 degrees, but it had to be for 4 months. Same with rosyboas, cornsnakes, Florida kings. Very important is the light cycle. Keep them dark.

Spotted pythons hardly need any cooldown.

If you can't change the environment to suit the snake, change the snake to suit the environment.