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December 27th and I’m still feeding here in Ft. Lauderdale, hasn’t been cold yet here. I’m going to wind them down and hope we get a nice cold snap here in a couple of weeks. It got “down” into the sixties for two days and now it’s right back to seventies and snakes are crawling around hungry.
Looks almost like a black and white photo- but it’s color!

This shows my water bowl inside a small hatchling-type sterilite. This girl likes to play with the bowl so this helps contain the spills. I usually have the lid to it sitting sideways over the bowl, and she likes to sit “up there” when not under the newspaper...

Just bored so I figured I’d post something. Sorry about the quality of my pics. Hope someone gets some slight entertainment from it! Enjoy.

I think it's great. Beautiful snake! Thanks for posting that.
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Diego

Diego & Tiffany's Zoo:
SNAKES
2.4.0 Corn Snakes (Different morphs)
1.1.0 Everglades Rat Snakes
2.1.0 Baird's Rat Snakes
1.2.0 Trans-Pecos Rat Snakes
0.1.0 Trinket Rat Snake
0.1.0 Amel Pacific Gopher Snake
1.0.0 Het Amel San Diego Gopher Snake
3.1.0 Sonoran Gopher Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Sonoran Gopher Snakes
1.0.0 Mexican Black Kingsnake
2.1.0 Gray Banded Kingsnakes (1.1 River Road, 1.0 Non-Locale Specific)
0.2.0 California Kingsnakes
0.1.0 Thayeri Kingsnake
0.1.0 Florida Kingsnake
1.1.0 Boa Constrictors
0.1.0 Dumeril's Boa
1.1.0 Rosy Boas (Mexican & Mid Baja)
1.1.0 Kenyan Sand Boas
0.1.0 Indonesian Dwarf Pacific Boa
0.1.0 Tangerine Honduran Milksnake
1.0.0 Honduran Milksnake
1.1.0 Ball Pythons
1.0.0 Woma Python
1.1.0 Cape York Spotted Pythons
1.1.0 Macklot's Pythons
1.1.0 Western Hognose
1.0.0 Blacktail Cribo

LIZARDS
1.0.0 Frilled Dragon
3.1.0 Bearded Dragons (2 Normal, 1 RedXGold, 1 Citrus)
0.1.0 Eastern Collared Lizard
0.1.0 Merauke Blue Tongue Skink
1.3.0 Leopard Geckos
1.0.1 Yellow Niger Uromastyx
1.1.0 Chuckwalla
0.1.0 Banded Gecko

FROGS
2.2.0 Southern Bell Frogs
1.0.1 Green Tree Frogs
1.0.0 Bubbling Kassina
1.1.1 White's Tree Frogs
0.0.2 Gold Frogs

Great snake and great pics.

Love the water bowl tip.

Thanks!

Yeah I love the water bowl thing too. Beautiful ghost you have there.

Thanks. Hey, pun intended for my waterbowl “tip”? Ha ha That really works too! This snake is funny in that it is very messy compared to my others. Will dig around in the newspaper, flip the bowl, push the shoe box all around, is a real busy-body. And not because it’s too hot, aggravated or anything, just very curious type. Is always the one watching me in the rack.

I am housing my snakes in my business warehouse bay for the first time this year with no air conditioning available so I have to come up with some artificial cool air somehow to brumate breeders. I am thinking of using a big thermoelectric Igloo cooler to maintain them at a good constant cool temp that they would never get down to inside the warehouse bay. Any suggestions for that?

I have known people to successfully cycle snakes by placing them in a cooler with ice for only two week.

..and yet others who do nothing at all in the way of special treatments for the winter... FL kings...in FL... may not need much of an overwintering other than less light and the slightly cooler weather we get...
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

www.crimsonking.funtigo.com

.and yet others who do nothing at all in the way of special treatments for the winter... FL kings...in FL... may not need much of an overwintering other than less light and the slightly cooler weather we get...
:Mark

Actually I agree with you Mark. I was just trying to give an idea to cool them . The ice chest suggestion actually was used in July by Jim Ververka who used to cycle his smaller snakes late in the year.

I have successfully bred hundreds of rosy boas by just placing them in a closet. Temps were probably in the 70's but they cycles fine. Today I keep the heat tape on all winter so that the smakes have a chioce to cool or not. Since my animals are being kept in a room which is 55-60F during the winter this works really well for me. I see the snakes sitting on the cool side most of the time and I still offer food to skinny females or females that are small in size. They still cylce fine this way.

I came upon this cycling bit by accident one year when I had to move my snakes from the west coast to the east coast. I kept some of my snakes stored at my parents house for a short while and some of the smaller cal kings were kept in a cold garage with heat tape. I fed them all winter and they still produced viable eggs, even though they were on heat and only 18" long.

Since then I have opened up my mind to some of the realistic appraches to breeding instead of just a recipe passed down over generations.

“even though they were on heat and only 18" long” oh you are a bad man! I appreciate you contributing and not just repeating tired old rehash. I tell you what I think, nature is over rated! FR would have a cow (or is that Thomas?) Tell me where in nature the naturally occurring Pueblan Milks live in abundance? They breed two or three times a year in sorry old captivity. If nature is better there must be a place in the heart of the Pueblan range where they are prolifically abundant. I believe there are many instances where captive maintenance far exceeds nature. Albinos are a natural occurance, but they rarely survive to reproductive age. They do often enough to pass along the gene for it, but captive maintenance of albinos and many other traits offers opportunities that do not exist in nature. The natural part of all of this is that the snakes take advantage of us too. They eat our mice and breed when the opportunity presents itself. They survive and fulfill their life purpose in spite of us. They produce young to suit us, please us and create opportunity for their young to thrive and survive with us. They don’t know it, but they do. That is just as much nature’s way as living in a wild canyon somewhere. Man’s influence is nature too, unless man is God. Have a happy New Year andthanks for all the input over the last year.