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Old 23-Jun-06, 09:11 PM
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Lorenzo. There is a great care sheet somewhere in this site about keeping diamonds. It is a US sheet so their spring is our autumn and they use the wring type of degrees but otherwise it is fantastic. \We dont know where you are but if you are in Sydney or a siumilar climate it is defintiely best to keep you girl outside. My diamonds were hibernating outside and the nights would get down to below zero. She managed 7 years out there and then I sold her. They will even come out to sun themselves on 20 degree days.

I guess the black colour is the sort of give away. Black absorbs heat so most cold climate snakes like Chappell Is Tigers & copperheads have a lot of black to absorb more heat. similar with diamonds I guess. Theres even a theory that says the BHP has a black head so it only has to stickk its head out of its hole to sun itself.

So why tell you that? I guess because I think that the darker your diamond the colder you should keep it. (I am not talking 5 degrees colder here but maybe 1 or 2 on average)

Sorry for hogging tonight folks....
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