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When do snakes hibernate? Well not all snakes hibernate, just the ones that are going to
live in temperate areas that are going to get colder. Snakes are ectothermic so their
internal body temperature is decided on by other sources be it the sun or a heated rock
or whatever. So snakes that do hibernate are going to hibernate in the late Fall to early
Winter months. Now the key to hibernation is that a snake has to have the correct indicators
to tell it to hibernate so a snake that is not allowed to be out in the wild and slowly
or gradually have the temperature start dropping on him and slowly and gradually having the
amount of daylight available to him getting smaller he won't have the correct indications
that it is time to hibernate. Because a snake has to prepare for hibernation. They have
to eat a little bit more, they have to fatten up and they have to find a place that is going
to be proper for them to hibernate in. Now if you are continuing to hibernate a snake
in captivity you can do that by shortening lighting hours and by slowly bringing the
temperature down to a month to two month period, make sure that you do offer the snake more
food before doing this and always make sure that you have water available in the event
that the snake does awaken from his hibernation in an intermittent period and need to rehydrate.
That's very important.