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brumate corns together

It's possible, but you might wind up with them breeding earlier than expected. Or getting sick. Or eating each other (rare, but it does happen). However, if you have a tank divider, it's possible.
 
If you've got the caging, why not brumate them separately? There's really not much upside I can see other than only having to open one container to check on them and one water bowl to change. I agree with everyone else's 2 cents.
 
RobbiesCornField said:
It's possible, but you might wind up with them breeding earlier than expected. Or getting sick. Or eating each other (rare, but it does happen). However, if you have a tank divider, it's possible.
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oh,
I meant males together or females together.

I know it's better to brumate them separately, but I just might have a problem with this.
I'll be happy to read some tips, if it's not too risky.
 
If a person lives in a warmer climate that it is really hard to cool animals in, it might be advantages to brumate animals together. I was using a frig to brumate a few years ago, and obviously was very limited on space. I brumated my males by themselves, but brumated the females communally. I had absolutely ZERO problems doing this and recommend it to people that may be limited on space for brumating. If you know your animals and they are healthy going into brumation, then there is no problem with this. Also, note that I did not brumate males together. Competition between males, during brumation, could prevent one or more of them not performing during breeding season.
 
Great point, Mike!

Question, how did you ventilate the fridge? I've tried keeping my colonies up during winter, but have far better success breeding by putting them down. Plus it's a break I now look forward to every year.
 
elrojo said:
Great point, Mike!

Question, how did you ventilate the fridge? I've tried keeping my colonies up during winter, but have far better success breeding by putting them down. Plus it's a break I now look forward to every year.
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I put the fridge on as high a temp as it would go. Sometimes I would leave the door slightly ajar to keep it from getting too cold. I was trying to keep it just above 50. The hardest thing about fridge brumation is humidity, it is very easy for them to have their water bowls run dry, so it wise to check them weekly. The collection is too large to brumate in a fridge for me anymore, now I have a window unit AC in the snake room that pretty much runs all winter long. This last year I brumated right at 65 and that worked well for me, with corns as well as alterna.
 
Thank you all,
I'll try to avoid brumating together.
If someone else have experience (good or bad) brumating communally, I'll be glad to hear.
 
I've brumated in pairs several times. These were pairs that I intended to breed. No problems at all.
 
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