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RE: sometimes I wonder!!!!!

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Posted by: FR at Sat Oct 22 01:21:41 2005  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]  
   

Please allow me to wonder.

Kingsnakes hatch from late august to early sept. And you think they do not feed until the next march??? hmmmmmmmmmmmm Thats over 6 months. How odd. Heck the wild babies around here are half grown by then.(OK not all of them, but some of them are)

It seems to me, your kind of thinking is a form of rationalizing to fit your needs. I am sure a baby somewhere did not feed until the next spring. Maybe even a certain percentage of late hatched individuals, but you use the exception as a tool is pretty much a bandage approach to suit your mentality. Why not just learn what conditions are condusive to good health and feeding.

I do not disaggree with your cooling approach, it surely can work, but the key is in your statement. You said to cool it, then warm it up. hmmmmmm how about warming it up now and forget the cooling, as cooling may be the problem in the first place. At this time of year, room temperature may no longer be suitable.

Yes I am back to my old, offer a temperature range. If that individual snake had a range of temps from 65 or 70F to about 90 or so, I am sure it would eat your finger if givin a chance.

Please understand, as HMK mentioned down below, we have been on a field site since the seventies, and one thing we learned, snakes spend their entire life picking different temps to suit different needs. It really is not that hard of a concept to grasp. Cheers FR


   

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