brumation ???

[Albert Clark]

Well, 78F can be considered a night time drop temperature for ball pythons so I would think that it could also apply to carpet pythons and retics. However if your daytime temps remain between 82F - 90F you are good. 78F will be the high point for cooling for those that even do use it to condition their animals. Real brumation is sustained cooling with temps down to 50F -55F for 2 to 3 months and is that low for colubrids and not pythons..

[sattva]

Originally Posted by Albert Clark

Well, 78F can be considered a night time drop temperature for ball pythons so I would think that it could also apply to carpet pythons and retics. However if your daytime temps remain between 82F - 90F you are good. 78F will be the high point for cooling for those that even do use it to condition their animals. Real brumation is sustained cooling with temps down to 50F -55F for 2 to 3 months and is that low for colubrids and not pythons..

All my guys have a cold hide that runs 78 to 80 and a hot hide 90 to 92... I have to say that all my snakes but my JCP like the cold hide, 99% of the time... The room temperature drops to 75 at night and climbs up to as much as 80 on a warm day...
I thought I had read somewhere that Boas will go without eating for months even if the temps don't drop... That got me thinking about my guys since fall showed up here this week... Maybe I read that wrong...