Quote Originally Posted by Skiploder View Post
I think everyone does it a bit different, but I stop feeding breeding candidates around the first of November and then begin to slowly kill the heat around the end of November and leave it off until the middle of March. I take about two weeks to go from an ambient of about 75 to 78 to the cooling range of 56 to 58 degrees. I cool heloderms and non-tropical colubrids almost the exact same way.

For the adults, I use black concrete mixing tubs http://www.harborfreight.com/7-gallo...tub-46936.html and stuff them with spaghnum moss. While I use these year round as humid hides, they become hibernaculums in the winter. It becomes easy to keep them slightly damp which helps prevents dehydration during the winter. It's simple to use a saw to cut a door in these.
Awesome, thanks mate.

The animals I got are kept warm 'till now so I guess I can start cooling them in a week or so.