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For those of you who brumate your corns, how long do you leave them cool? I have seen a range of times and was wondering what the consensus was here.
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Dave Wise
Marion, NY

>>For those of you who brumate your corns, how long do you leave them cool? I have seen a range of times and was wondering what the consensus was here.
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>>Dave Wise
>>Marion, NY

we all have our own time frames usually based on what is the most convenient or just how long we wish to go without all the extra mouths to feed.
My normal routine has been to feed them their last meal the last weekend of October or first weekend of November then put them "down" the weekend after Thanksgiving.
I would then bring them up the second weekend of February.
This year I was running a couple of weeks behind when I put them down but will probably still bring them back "up" around the same time.
so normal for me is around 10 or 11 weeks
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"Resistance is futile"
Jimmy Johnson
(Draybar)
Draybars Snakes

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Myself and many people I know do a Thanksgiving through Valentine's Day cooling period. There are plenty of variations on this theme: I've cooled Corn Snakes for as little as three weeks and have had them successfully reproduce.

Also, some snakes, especially males, go off feed earlier than Thanksgiving. I have Russian Rat Snakes that stop eating in August. When I have snakes stop eating prior to brumation, I cool them at that time and bring them up with my other snakes around Valentines Day.

Tim

Third Eye

used to do 6 to 8 weeks....this year.....they been down for 9 already.....I am in no hurry....3 more?....

I have done 0....

....so...3 weeks no food and 8 weeks down...one week warm up....
this is about average....total 12 weeks no food....

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I always shoot for the first weekend in December to the first weekend in March.
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Jeremy Pierce
Shade Tree Exotics
shade-tree-exotics@att.net

Down on Thanksgiving, wake em up the last week of February. Been on that schedule for 25 years now....
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Brad Chambers
WWW.HCU-TX.ORG

"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." - Robert A. Heinlein

Thanks for the responses!
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Dave Wise
Marion, NY