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How cold is to cold?

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snowman86

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Wondering how cold is to cold in hibernation. I try to keep things in the 50-52 range but got a little concerned when it dipped to 47 the other night. I use a digital thermometer that records the high and low temp for each day. I have a dedicated room for hibernation in my basement and everything is tucked away well but when the weather was a perfect 52 degrees I was doing a little winter cleaning with the window open...wife called me upstairs to help her and I'll be darn if I didn't forget to close the window. I'm just glad it wasn't a single digit temp night!!
 
They can handle the occasional dip into the 40's as long as it isn't consistent. It's been in the low 40's the past couple of nights so I've added some heat at night to the shed my brumating adults are in to bring the temps up a bit.
 
ya that's always been my thoughts too, the post was basically to spur on conversation so Thanks Susan :) This is my first year for brumation at my home (has always been somewhere else) I was a little more than rushed putting things together so my circulation heat wasn't in place like I had wanted. Stay cool :)
 
I think i saw someone else post that they had their snakes (in a room) down to 1°C (which is about 34°F) at times with no negative impact on them the next year.
 
Well personally I would be freaking out if all of my snakes were sitting at 34 degrees. I can't imagine wanting them to be colder than around 45 for very long.
 
In the wild, corn snakes are in underground burrows where the temps don't get to freezing. I would worry that my snakes would literally freeze in their above ground brumation shed if the temps got that low. We've had plenty of nights where it got in the 20's and I simply can't trust what the weather people say the temp is going to be as we are consistently a few degrees lower than they report it is. So my little space heater will be turned on when they predict it will be in the mid to upper 40's just as a safeguard.
 
I don't think that the room was a constant 34°F, but rather that it occasionally dipped to that temp. While I was brumating this year the lowest temp that I recorded was 38°F, and so far my snakes seem fine now that they are out. The temps in my garage were not constant but were generally were in the mid 40s, but occasionally would get into the mid 50s. I wouldn't advocate using a constant just above freezing temp, but think that they should be able to endure the occasional dip. (I am not an expert though)
 
Ive heard of poeple putting there corns in brumation for a week at low 70's high 60's for a week and then drop it to 50-60's for a month then 60-70's for a week then bring them out of brumation. I gusse i was wondering is that good to do it that way or not?
 
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