Hi Tom, How about looking at this in another way. How long have you been doing this? lets say ten years, just for fun.

I too use to prepare like you do, say for the first ten to fifteen years. But now, thirty to thirtyfive years later, those syringes are rusted and all the meds have gone bad, the kids, then their kids, took the dang microscope.

And like you, nothing died, hmmmmmmmmmmm I guess I will never know either!!!

U see, thats the point of experience. I have a medicine box that has meds that are outdated by decades. The main med was Flagell, to treat for flagelated protozoas. hmmmmmmm Kings get infested with those if the temps are toooo hot, that is, they do not have the ability to cool. give the snakes a range of temps and no more flagell. Etc etc etc. Nearly all the common and they seem to be common here, are gone with the simple offering if a small heat range. Instead of the silly 84.5745 F.

As a field herper, NO SNAKE OR POPULATION, OR SPECIES, uses one temp. They all live in areas thats both hotter and colder then they need. They then select from that range. They never live in an area thats one temp.

I beg anyone to show me that they do. Also, they never exsist in any enviornment thats 84F in the summer and 55F in the winter. Never, again someone show me one single place, muchless all places kingsnakes come from. Their species, their abilities are to exsist within a range of conditions. That is what makes them what they are.

But again I rant. Did I say that? anyway have a good one sir. Cheers

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