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Gosh every day I see something new and feel like just turning the heaters back on and skipping this. I have never put them under until now and I just don't like it. Now I have my male Motley Albino sleeping in the water. Any advice? Take him out or just leave him alone? Temps in the room are dipping to the mid 40s now.
Foot Hill Reptiles

I'd take him out. I've found that once they settle into their water dish during brumation, they tend to stay there. This can cause skin blisters if soaking occurs for a long period of time. I'd give the snake no water dish for 2 or 3 days, until it finds a new spot to settle in, then I'd either put the dish back or get an even smaller dish that the snake cannot fit into and put it in there.

Tim

Third Eye

Sounds like a plan thanks, Another question. Whats the point in brumating? As stated this is my first year. I have bred them for 3 years so clearly they don't need this to breed. Dose it just increase the odds of successful breeding or is there another reason to brumate captive snakes? Save money on food perhaps?
Foot Hill Reptiles

Snakes are brumated to increase fertility and to provide an additional trigger (in addition to light cycling) to breed. Conventional wisdom has it that males will be more fertile if cooled. Females are cooled too, to keep both snakes on the same schedule.

Some corns live in south Florida and may never experience cold temperatures. These snakes would not need to be cooled. Other corns are native to New Jersey, Virginia and Kentucky - it snows there. So cooling replicates what would be natural if they were in the wild.

Most people do not know the locality history of their corns, so they cool them "just in case." Though there are a number of breeders that do not cool their snakes at all and still are very successful.

Many keepers simply like to take a break and cool their snakes so they won't have to maintain them in the winter - even if they're not breeding them.

Tim

It would make sence as my first year was a 100% success but every other year 0 success, I thought we had determined I was not incubating properly but this same method worked fine the first year. Maybe the fact that I have never cooled them had something to do with getting bad eggs as well.
Foot Hill Reptiles