big problem

[Vinman]

you might have to calabrate your water meter try a thermomiter

 

[KatieL]

Joe yes they do they spend most of their lives under the ground in the tunnels that rodents and rodent like animals make. I been told that under the ground there is a mase of tunnels that corns and kings use to get from one place to another .they spend most of their lives in the tunnels. There was a study done about 10 years ago with transmitters it was in the NY herp news letter that was reprinted from some other news letter. I talked to many collectors they all say corns live under ground. They come out once and a while mostly in early spring and mid to late fall depending on what part of their range they live and the temp.

I'm not saying I'm a total expert here, or anything, but being part of a research project with many "transmitter-ed" snakes, I have a few points to add here...

There very well could be published results about cornsnakes spending a lot of time in rodent burrows, as demonstrated by tracking the snakes.

However, the results would depend on the times of day that the snakes were tracked. Keeping in mind that corns are crepuscular (I hope I spelled that right), unless you tracked them at dusk or dawn, they would likely be hiding out somewhere, and burrows could be a logical place to find them, depending on the area and climate conditions, ect.

For instance, the research project I am involved in consists of tracking the snakes with transmitters in 2 different time frames (the time frames shift back and forth daily, so you do one time frame the first day and the second time frame the next). The first time frame started early in the morning and ran til a little after lunch time. The other time frame started at lunch time and ran into the late evening. By tracking the snakes at all of these different times we had a pretty good idea of what they did at different times of the day. We DID find that the gravid females seemed to spend their nights in rodent burrows rather than just hiding out under foliage/hummocks like the non-gravid snakes did. However, during the mid-morning/afternoon the gravid girls would spend all their time basking in the sun. Sooooo....point being, if we had just checked the gravid girls in the morning or the evening we would have "determined" they spent their time underground when they were gravid, when that was obviously not true. So it the results of the study really depend on the time(s) of day they checked on their little transmitter-ed buddies.

Just something to think about. Not arguing with anyone here.