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Originally Posted by bmwdirtracer
Wow! Yeah, the temps are way different from what I've been advised by Jon M. at Black Pearl. He has his snakes going down to the low fifties in winter! (That's pretty much impossible for me to achieve in my small house).
Decades ago, when I lived in the Orlando area, I'd go out hiking on ~55-60 degree winter days, and see Easterns fully active!
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I think it's probably better if you can get them down to 55 at night, but I was having trouble even hitting 65 with the way I had things set up. I think Rich is right and that was my impression as my main problem, the temperatures are the biggest thing to get right.
Another issue I had is that when I first arrived, before I did any research, I treated them more similarly to colubrids and was "brumating" them with no heat. I didn't start turning the belly heat back on until February which I'm sure was a big part of the problem.