Cooling kingsnakes in a warm climate

[philbyi-guy]

Does anyone cool kings in an area like coastal Texas where it stays quite warm? I have a hatchling L. pyromelana that has been off feed and I am being told to cool it through the winter so it wakes up hungry, and I am having trouble keeping temperatures down. Does anyone have any ideas? His heat light it off at the moment, but my house is much too warm for this montane species to properly cool.

[EL Ziggy]

I live in GA where it's pretty warm too. I don't cool my kings but they kinda cool themselves during the fall and winter months. They'll occasionally go off feed, they're a little less active, and they tend to burrow or hang out more in their cool side hides. I thought you only had to brumate if you had plans to breed them. What are you using as a heat source? Do you have a thermostat attached to it? I'm sure some of the other king keepers will chime in soon. Best wishes.