After 201 days . . .

Man I am glad I read this post.
My bp is going on fast since 12/15/05. Seems this year he started later and so I guess will finish later. Last year we went on in Oct and was done by March. So I was getting a little worried.

Congrats on the fast being over!!
It will drive you to drink some weeks. :)

man thats a good long time, i hope basill doesn't do that i might lose hair if that happens lol

Check your temps during those months...if you keep them warm, they'll be hungry....I kept my ambient temps no lower than 80 degrees at the coldest and all of mine ate all winter long- even the ones that fasted last year when I wasn't controlling the nighttime temps....

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Originally Posted by elevatethis

Check your temps during those months...if you keep them warm, they'll be hungry....I kept my ambient temps no lower than 80 degrees at the coldest and all of mine ate all winter long- even the ones that fasted last year when I wasn't controlling the nighttime temps....

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I had 2 that went 3.5 months each and there was never a temp drop. Sometimes the seasonality kicks it off. They must sense it in the air.

Agreed.......I also ran a humidifier 24/7 in the room......coulda had something to do with it. Or I just got lucky!

Definitely could have. Mine started eating again as soon as I started running the humidifier. I got the room temp at about 82 and ran the humidifier for a few hours a day on high. Also the change to the new rack. It could have been any of the above or maybe it was just time again.

I would think that for an animal made to live in relative humidity over 50% pretty much at all times, the dry winters have got to irritate their respitory system.

Jamie, what you did sounds about right on. I really started to see a difference in the behavior of all my bps, shedding, eating, overall temperment- since I started keeping them warm (82-84 -- 92-94) at all times.

Here I am playing catch up with the boards and feeding my gang... I was worried about one of them for a bit but 201 days.... It's tough to deal with, especially when all you want to do is provide a thriving environment. I'm sure you're glad that's over. Congrats for not going "bananas"...LOL

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Originally Posted by elevatethis

I would think that for an animal made to live in relative humidity over 50% pretty much at all times, the dry winters have got to irritate their respitory system.

Jamie, what you did sounds about right on. I really started to see a difference in the behavior of all my bps, shedding, eating, overall temperment- since I started keeping them warm (82-84 -- 92-94) at all times.

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Yup..Ever since I moved to NJ and have a stable, interior snake room, all has been well. Even though the temps are warm pretty much year round in FL, rooms with windows are still fairly hard to keep stable. Those temps swings seem to play havoc with the snakes.

Wish the temps humidity thing was the reason mine hasn't eaten.
My temps stay 84 on cool to 94 on hot and humidity never drops below 50.
So I figured maybe he goes off because of the shorter days thing. So I figure he will start back up when DST hit like last year but no go so far.

I was feeding f/t and went to live last year and he went off fast. Been offering live so far this time but think I am gonna get a f/t and put it at the entrance to his hide and just shut the door to my room and leave him alone for awhile and see what happens.
He doesn't seem to be losing weight and he drinks and ur's at least once a month, appears healthy so I think it's just his nature and the fact I am sure he was wc or a cb.