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Posted by patricia sherman on October 18, 2002 at 10:18:58:
In Reply to: Who is preparing for brumation and what type of ratsnake? posted by Andre Wynn on October 17, 2002 at 21:22:29:
Not preparing them yet, but I will be in November.
I have various subspecies of E. obsoleta, and a fair number of E. guttata, of varying ages. They all get brumated in my "cold-room" under the basement stairs. Midwinter temp in this space, is in the 38'F to 45'F range. Brumating snakes are housed in small plastic containers with only paper substrate and a small water dish. Since they're not going to be digesting or eliminating, I've no concerns about regurges, so they're mostly housed three or four of same gender and like size to a container. They're sleeping, so they don't interact except to coil together.
My babies under one-yr only get brumated for about six weeks, if at all (I usually don't brumate those that are feeding reliably, but I do brumate the holdouts as I've found they usually start feeding nicely after emerging from brumation), yearlings and two-yr-olds get about ten weeks, and the older snakes get 13 to 16 weeks. I generally take a winter vacation during the time the snakes are "down".
Tricia
