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Hello all.

My snakes are brumating in my garage, and the temps are hitting the low 40s tonight. Have any of you seen problems with these kinds of temps?

All feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Kyle

As long as it is a brief drop and the animals are all healthy you should be OK, but if there is any minor ailment for animals during the cool down they might have it really take hold and be a problem.

If you are worried a basic oil filled radiating style heater can be set to low to give off some warmth and they are very safe to let run for lengths of time, plus they are not very expensive.
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I find the garage is usually much warmer then outside temps. You should monitor the inside garage temps. It has been very cold outside here in NY ( 15-20 degrees ) but the garage temps at my house are in the high 40's - low 50's. I like to keep them above 50 degrees so I turned on the space heater this week.

Thanks for the replies guys. I'm getting ready to put a heater in there. Also, do you think that colder temps affect follicle production in females? Or sperm in males? Basically I am curious to know if there is anything I need to do to ensure they are ready to go for the upcoming season.

Thanks for the replies guys. I'm getting ready to put a heater in there. Also, do you think that colder temps affect follicle production in females? Or sperm in males? Basically I am curious to know if there is anything I need to do to ensure they are ready to go for the upcoming season.

I don't have any fertility problems at average 55 degrees. My problems are with fully formed dead in the eggs and kinked neos.

Were the dead/kinked neos due to incubation errors or snakes getting too cold during brumation?

aaaahhh. There is the question. I've tried incubation temps from 78 - 82 with similar results. I don't think brumation temps have anything to do with hatch rates or kinks 5 months later unless your getting all infertile eggs. I think the key with brumation temps is that your snakes don't lose body weight vs. they don't die from respiratory infections or outright freeze to death. I've tried vermiculite and perlite as an incubation substraight. I like perlite better. I may try no substraight next. Some people are throwing around the subject of diet now. I don't know what it is.

Hmmm. That's interesting.

This will be our first time breeding alterna, so hopefully we can get it right. Only one pair is ready to go this year, so it will be good experience for the animals that will be ready next year.

Ill post pictures of some of my animals when I get a chance.

Thanks for the insight.