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Has anyone ever brumated multiple same sex hondos in the same cage???? It would cut down on my cages and make things alot easier!!!!

Yes, I do it for the same reason you mentioned...space! You are fine to brumate multiple animals together, even same sex.

Dave

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That's a cool photo Dave. You even got their tongue's going at the same time!

Thanks Joe. I'd like to say I planned it that way but it was completely dumb luck!

Dave

>> "I'd like to say I planned it that way but it was completely dumb luck!"

** Boy do I know what ya mean there!,...I've tried to capture the red tongue on an Everglades Rat I have before, and it took zillions of tries because of the long annoying delay on my digital camera between the time I saw the tongue flick out, to hitting the shutter button, and it actually taking the pic..LOL!

I even "tried" to anticipate when it would flick it out, and was still JUST as annoying to actually capture the shot. I even waved my hand all in front of it to get it to respond and it NEVER flicked it's tongue when I thought it would,.....what a royal pain that photo session was..LOL!

Out of about 50 shot's, I might have gotten one or two half-assed tongue shots, I finally just started shooting totally at random and hoped for the best without much success..LOL!

That is a real cool pic you got of those,...almost a mirror image of one another..LOL!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

Hey Doug...here's how I got lucky...that pic I took was during brumation...I was giving them fresh water and they were sitting like that and stayed nice and still with tongues out! 55 degrees can slow that tongue down a lot! lol

Dave

HAHAHA!,...you have a good point..LOL!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

I press the camera button halfway down to prefocus and just wait. It got me these:

Those are awesome shots!

Yeah, I was doing that too, but my camera apparently has a much longer delay before it actually takes the pic. It's a great camera, but certain things suck about it.

Yes, very cool tongue pics for sure.

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

cool pics!!

Brumate them all together.

If you brumate females in with them, you might see a male and female pair off and stay close together - easier to notice in a large cage used for cooling.

Cooling pairs together or multiple females and males together results in far better fertility IMO.
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Mark

In some species of Lampropeltis if you brumate males together in a group with females the males will fight each other. I always brumate my males seperate or with the females I plan to breed them to. That being said I've never tried to brumate Honduran males together but I would assume the same would be true.

Wayne Sanders