Hello everyone, I'm really considering getting a hognose at the upcoming repticon in March and have read lots of care sheets and think I have their requirements down packed. Since this would be my first colubrid I have some questions on the whole brumation thing and I'm hoping you guys can help me out sorry for all the questions.

Do they need to brumate every year?
Do you wait until they are a certain age/weight to begin brumating?
Is brumation purely for breeding or is it something that they all need to do?
Lastly (I think) I keep all my snakes in one heated room, so I'm not sure how I could drop the temps for the hoggy during brumation (if it's needing) without compromising the health of my bps since I've read dropping temps into the 50's are acceptable brumation temps, which is much too cold for bps.

Can't wait to hear from you guys. And I can't wait to hopefully be sharing hognose pics with you soon