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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

Well, now you have gone and made me impatient for March 20 to arrive, my planned wake up date!

Very nice what with the black crossovers!
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

>>Well, now you have gone and made me impatient for March 20 to arrive, my planned wake up date!
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>>Very nice what with the black crossovers!

Lol....thanks Bob.....
I have a planned wake up date too but that is only for the breeders.......hatchlings, yearlings and subadults feed through the winter with a 70 to 85 thermal gradient.....
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

I have a planned wake up date too but that is only for the breeders.......hatchlings, yearlings and subadults feed through the winter with a 70 to 85 thermal gradient.....
If I could keep the ambient heat in my cabin 70 to 85 F I would maybe be able to keep them all, except for the breeders of course, awake and feeding. But my cabin gets down to the high 40's at night in the winter. I can provide hot spot hides, but the room temperature is cold all night. The pyros unanimously decide to go off feed over winter and it is just easier to let them all sleep, and come out when it is warm in the spring. The photo-period seems also to influence them. Corpus Christi must be a lot warmer, especially with the Gulf influence. Maybe sea level also influences them.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

>>The photo-period seems also to influence them. Corpus Christi must be a lot warmer, especially with the Gulf influence. Maybe sea level also influences them.

yep....it was 80 here yesterday but we have seen it freeze 4 times so far this winter and have hit 27F..........but it is typically 75 or so due to the Gulf wind until a front blows through....then it cools down for 3 days and then warms back up again......

Btw.....I have no window in my snake room so they do not see the normal photoperiod......

Oh....and I am probably 50 ft above see level here at the new house......
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

Nice, certainly one of my favorite species.
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