Well, last weekend marked the start of brumation for my posse. It's going to be a sad state of affairs in my living room for a couple of months with the majority of my collection headed for the deep sleep. I thought I'd give a quick rundown of this years process as I've tried different things over the years.

The snakes had been denied food for 2 weeks and I dropped theiir basking temps from 30C to 19C over the course of a week and a half.

Recently, I switched all of my main enclosures to cocopeat as a substrate. It took a little while to get the water/peat ratio right but I started thinking that this soil mix might make a good brumation medium. I tubbed this with a drier layer on top and provided a large hide and waterbowl for each of the groups.

Tubs ready and waiting



Each snake was weight checked and the females got a good once over to make sure that they were empty/not trying to double clutch/etc.



Snake groupings:
Parietalis and radix females


Parietalis boys


Radix boys