How to keep a domestic python for the winter, how to raise a snake for the winter, and how to raise

Didn't the owner of the reptile pet shop where you bought pythons tell you that pet pythons generally don't hibernate? Snakes are easy to suffer from pneumonia when hibernating, and it is easy to breed parasites, which will greatly affect the health of snakes, more than 30% of wild snakes can not survive winter, hibernation is too dangerous. Keeping a snake in captivity requires warming it and changing its habits so that it does not hibernate.

Generally, there are heating pads for sale in the reptile pet spots, which are very cheap, 10 yuan a piece, put the heating pad on the side of the reptile pet box wall or the hall at the bottom of the box, and cover it with cushion material, so that the snake will not be scalded. Also, if you don't have a heating pad or a light bulb specifically designed for heating, you can use a regular light bulb instead, but it won't work so well. Also, don't forget to keep feeding in winter.

Finally, I wish the landlord's python a healthy growth.

Snakes are ectotherms, and when the ambient temperature is lower than 13, they enter a dormant state. Wild snakes often die in large numbers due to poor thermal insulation conditions in winter. Therefore, overwintering management is very important, which is crucial to the success or failure of snake farming.

Therefore, the following aspects should be paid attention to in wintering management: (1) Do a good job of cultivating and rejuvenating snakes before winter. Let the snake eat more, eat full, eat well, deposit more fat in the body, and take no or less bile and snake venom.

2) Add soil and grass to the snake nest and snake house, close the door opening, and strictly prevent the invasion of cold winds. (3) Put clean water in the snake house, which can not only adjust the humidity, but also can be used for the snake to drink when it wakes up, and the relative temperature of the wintering environment should be maintained at 8 degrees. It should not exceed 8 degrees or more.

Don't alarm it usually and let it go into optimal hibernation.

Take the above comprehensive measures snake can generally survive the winter, if the temperature is lower, should take cold-proof and thermal insulation measures, place electric heaters for artificial heating, but the temperature of the snake nest should not be above 8 degrees, the temperature can not rise or drop suddenly, otherwise the snake will sometimes wake up, sometimes hibernate and lead to death, it is best not to let it hibernate relatively good care.

1. When the snake hibernates, the temperature in the snake nest should be kept at 5-10, and when the temperature is higher than 10, the snake hibernation is restless, and the metabolism is strengthened, which increases the consumption of nutrients in the snake's body, which is not conducive to hibernation; When the temperature is lower than 5, the snake tends to freeze to death. Before winter, the snake nest and snake box should be cleaned up, and the sand and soft bedding should be replaced and thickened. During hibernation, the snake nest or snake box can be covered with plastic film, hay, straw, or electric lights can be installed in the snake house to raise the temperature.

When the temperature is too low, it is not advisable to use the stove fire to bake directly for heating, but to use heating to heat indirectly; When the temperature is too high, you can open the ventilation window with a high position in the snake room to cool the indoor air and outdoor air by convection, and at the same time remove the plastic film and straw covering the box and nest, but be careful not to blow the cold air directly into the snake body.

2. The snake farm should use the snake nest, snake room, snake box, and snake pool for the snake to overwinter, and it is easy to regulate the temperature and humidity of such a place for hibernation, and it is easy to observe the condition of the snake hibernation, which can make the snake hibernate safely. The method of using the stone caves in the garden, or digging artificial caves for snakes to spend the winter, is simple, but the temperature and humidity are not easy to control, and it is not conducive to people to observe the situation of snakes wintering, so this method of wintering is not advisable.

3. During the hibernation period of snakes, in addition to monitoring temperature and humidity, it is also necessary to regularly check the enemies in snake nests, snake boxes or snake pools, and pay attention to eliminating rats, scorpions and ants. Also, pay attention to the health of the snake. However, it is not advisable to check too much, and do not turn over the hidden snake during the inspection to minimize the interference of the hibernating snake.

4. During the hibernation period of the snake, in addition to paying attention to heat preservation, we should also pay attention to the humidity, because the humidity of the hibernation place is also very important, generally kept at 40%-45%, but the spring bend can be too low, otherwise the air is too dry, affecting the normal breathing of the snake when hibernating. At the same time, it should not be too wet, because the humidity will cause the temperature in the nest to drop. A basin of water can be placed in the nest or box, which can regulate the humidity on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can be used for the snake to drink.

5. When the outside temperature gradually rises to more than 10, the snakes will gradually wake up and gradually carry out activities. Once the snake starts to move, the temperature in the room and room cannot be lowered, otherwise the snake may enter hibernation and consume a lot of nutrients, which is not good for the snake's body. Therefore, it is necessary to try to heat up at this time, so that the snake will wake up completely and no longer hibernate.

After hibernation, the nutrients in the snake are greatly depleted, so the body is weak and has poor disease resistance, and it is easy to die due to pneumonia. In order to reduce the death of snakes, once the snake begins to move and prey, it is necessary to feed the animals that the snake likes to eat, and provide sufficient drinking water, and add snake health to the drinking water. Practice has shown that this measure has a significant effect on improving the disease resistance of snakes and reducing the occurrence of pneumonia and stomatitis in snakes.

Snakes survive the winter by hibernating.

When winter temperatures are cooler, snakes usually hibernate in dry burrows, in the crevices of trees, or rocks, curling up their bodies in neat places and curling up, with their head in the middle and tail in the outer ring. During hibernation, snakes eat and rely on their body's pre-winter reserves to maintain their activities, and once snakes are unable to maintain their body temperature at a certain height, they begin to look for suitable shelter.

Snakes in hibernation, like to live in groups, often a hibernation cave in less than three or five, more than dozens or even hundreds, with the approach of winter, snakes have the instinct to gather, there are more than a dozen kinds of snakes will live in a cave.

The habits of snakes

Snakes are reptiles, distributed all over the world, snakes are slender, no limbs, and no forelimb belts, they are also a kind of ectothermic animals whose body temperature changes with the temperature, it itself does not have a perfect body temperature regulation mechanism to produce and maintain a constant body temperature, for snakes, the most suitable survival temperature is 20 30, the temperature is too high or too low will affect the growth and development of snakes.

Snakes generally mate in early spring and early summer, and lay eggs and hatch in summer, otherwise the young snakes do not have enough time to accumulate enough fat to survive hibernation. Baby snakes born after September have a mortality rate of up to 50%.

In autumn, the snake begins to store enough nutrients in the body, and in early winter, it will not eat or drink, and begin to hibernate, generally for about 3 months, until the temperature rises to a certain level, and the snake will start to move again.