I'm piggy backing off a post I made below...

I know lots of people cool their animals for a few months to get them to breed and have great results. And some people have snakes that simply won't breed unless cooled.

However, I bred multiple species for years never cooling them... room temps and small hot spot year round, fed year round, and the only change would be the shorter light cycle coming through my windows.

I was in South Dakota and tried out traditional cool room brumation with no food for 3 years. All the animals stayed healthy and looked good, but not a single fertile egg for 3 years and only a few clutches of slugs.

now i'm back in TX, no cooling and let 4 females breed this year and it's resulted in 5 good clutches with another on the way.

Also, why do we expose animals like cal kings, corns, honduran milks to such low temps for months at a time when there is no possible way they could ever seen that in the wild? It's one of the most unnatural aspects of general "propper husbandry".

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