Are your snakes off eating now?

[Slateman]

Looks like my snakes kept in outside enclosure are off tucker now and preparing for winter rest. How about yours? I am starting to reduce temperature inside to.
This year I decided to keep temperature in olive pythons cages bit higher. I will let drop minimal temp. to 24 and will give them baking 4 hours daily on 30C.
Lastyear they had minimum temperature set on 18C and I have been told by my vet that I should give them more heat.

[moses]

do you think that if you dont adjust the temps at all during the year for inside snakes that there is an adverse effect? Greebs? Lutz? Afro?

[africancichlidau]

I don't think there will be an adverse affect on Gereebs, Lusty or afro but thats JMO. Seriously though:
Depends really Mr. Moses, the way I look at it is that we should be mimicking the wild conditions as closely as possible for the area where the snake comes from. If you are not looking at breeding them I reckon you should still cool because in the wild they cool
and they get a period of reduced growth rate. My opinion is that growing a snake too fast is detrimental to it as far as longevity is concerned.

And to Slatey, Yes mate my female Coastal has gone off her tucker and she is kept inside too. 'Tis the season for jittery, nervous thoughts and ideas, well, it is for me anyway

[cwarren72]

I still feed mine over this period albeit at a very reduce rate. They're still pigs witht their food.

[iluvsmyreptiles]

hey cwarren, Adam here.Yeah we are feeding most of iluvs...... snakes tonite and most have just finished eating.

[cwarren72]

I figure they will let me know when they are no longer hungry. I have two how ever that have gone off but the rest are charging away at it

[shaun]

I haven't fed my snake for 2 weeks from now. although it is autmn will it survive for 4 or 5 months without food?

Shaun

[Ricko]

some snakes can last up to about 18 months without food. i know someone who didnt feed his olives for about 10-12 months (not recommended but it was because of unforseeable circumstances) and they were still fine to handle but then they got a feed of 6adult rats each, as they are about 12-13 foot

[Robert]

Mine apear to still be hungry,very hungry.
I think they are just pigs.
Might start turning everything down now.
My maccies i think are mating every now and again,i just see the courting signs than later they are coiled together around the tail but no hemipenis sighted as yet .Good signs anyway.

[Slateman]

Mine snakes would eat if I feed them to, but I do not feed them becaose of temperature drop. I am afraid that if they eat they will not have enough heat to digest food properly.

[Ricko]

i saw a sad sight the other day, an amyaye (gecko dont know how to spell it, it was agamidae's avater when he was just marc) he had been fed and had no lighting and had a green belly as the food had rotted in its stomach

[bondisnakes]

Can someone tell me what temperature a Childrens Python yearling should be cooled at? I read somewhere that it was 22 degrees c. Does that sound right?

And when do Y'all start turning your heat up again?

Thanks a million

[Slateman]

I do not have childreni. Sorry. No idea bondi.

[bondisnakes]

Thanks Slatey

[lutzd]

You're asking me? I'm no expert. However, until this year, I haven't cooled any of my snakes. They still went off their food over winter though, so they do know what time of year it is!

I'm planning on cooling my 2 spotted pythons this year.

One of my spotted's and my diamond have both gone off their food in the last week or so.