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hibernation age

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Greg Sanders

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I'm having trouble finding out if my snake should hibernate. He's still a juvinile and I want him to follow his natural habbits. :shrugs:

What should I do? :shrugs:
 
I do not brumate unless the animal is going to breed. Otherwise I leave the temps up at the normal range and they remain active all year round. Babies and juveniles are not usually brumated anyway. In the wild they may be, but I'm sure a lot die due to starvation or respiratory infections from being too small to handle the long period without food.
 
My guy is 5 years old and I've never brumated him. Although he does go off feed every spring if there is a female in the same room as he is... so we always put the female at the other end of the house :)

Another thing is that if you chose to brumate a juvenie, you'll lose that growth period, so its choice to brumate them or feed them through those months and get some more substance on them.

Plus, I currently have only the one and I would miss him terribly if I brumated him :)
 
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