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30-Oct-06, 10:05 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Townsville Age: 39 | | | North Queensland Sleepy Snakes
Any help with this will be greatly appreciated;
Our 2 adult Costal Carpet Pythons, had a feed two and a half weeks ago and promptly curled up, went to sleep and have been very inactive since.
They usually curl up and go to sleep for a couple of days after they eat, but with the weather being very warm and settled, I would have thought they would have been far more active...not hibernating!
The rats I feed them were a little bit smaller than usual (The Aussie Pet Barn only had large rats, I usually get them extra large) but the rats looked good and were defrosted for about 4 hours out of the sun and warmed up to around 32c (internal temp(I double bag the rats and float them in hot tap water to bring their temp up to close to fresh killed) before I gave them to our snakes.
These are usually very social snakes and come out of there cage every night and cruse around the house for a few hours before we go to bed - but now after there last feed, that have not even really uncoiled them selves.
They live in a split level cage, with the boy on top and the girl below, the temp is good at around 30c at the warm end and 26c at the cool end. (They are both at there respective warm ends)
Is this behaviour normal as it is both our snakes behaving the same way?
They are defiantly still alive, they are just sleeping and particularly unsociable, and I am a little concerned – can somebody please shed some light on this for us?
Cheers
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31-Oct-06, 09:27 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-05 Location: QLD | | | | they maybe on shed.
Most of our snakes dont actually hibernate as such, they get a bit less active over the cooler months but do-not hibernate. |
31-Oct-06, 09:45 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Alexandria - Sydney Gender:  | | | | Brumate is the technical term.
Brumate = when they go into a reduce state of activity but still have the ability to defend and relocate against danger or enviornmental changes. |
31-Oct-06, 05:34 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Townsville Age: 39 | | | | How often do they shed?
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Originally Posted by TrueBlue  they maybe on shed.
Most of our snakes dont actually hibernate as such, they get a bit less active over the cooler months but do-not hibernate. | both snakes shed at the start of October, but they do seam a little darker in colour than usual. so how often do adult Costal Carpet Pythons shed?
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31-Oct-06, 05:39 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Townsville Age: 39 | | |  Thanks for the info
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Originally Posted by gillsy Brumate is the technical term.
Brumate = when they go into a reduce state of activity but still have the ability to defend and relocate against danger or enviornmental changes. | Brumate = that defiantly describes how both snakes a behaving now. But I thought that snakes would do this coming into the cooler months - not coming into the warmer ones!
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31-Oct-06, 05:39 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-06 Location: Townsville | | | | iT HAS BEEN COOL NIGHTS IN TOWNSVILLE THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS , SOME OF MY PYTHONS HAVE BEEN SLEEPY TOO |
31-Oct-06, 07:20 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Townsville Age: 39 | | |  you quite right
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Originally Posted by TrueBlue they maybe on shed.
Most of our snakes dont actually hibernate as such, they get a bit less active over the cooler months but do-not hibernate. | i just checked on them and the boy is half way through a shed
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31-Oct-06, 07:45 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-05 Location: QLD | | | | brentf,- how often snakes shed depends on a number of things, mainly how much food it gets over a certain peroid of time. Althought an injured snake will go into repeat sheds to aid in the healing of the wound. |
31-Oct-06, 08:14 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Townsville Age: 39 | | | | They are truly incredible creatures
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Originally Posted by TrueBlue brentf,- how often snakes shed depends on a number of things, mainly how much food it gets over a certain peroid of time. Althought an injured snake will go into repeat sheds to aid in the healing of the wound. | He seams to be quite happy again now – and he looks great.
That is amazing that they can go into a repeated shed to shed an injury.
Thanks a lot for your advice; I do appreciate you taking the time answer my concerns
Cheers
Brent
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