Brumation conditions: Dry, humid or wet?

[ConcinusMan]

Seems to me like it wouldn't make any difference if they have access to clean drinking water, and adequate humidity. I've never seen snakes get dehydrated when they have that. Brumating or not.

Not really looking to start an argument again but I'm having a hard time with swallowing the dehydration issue. It's never happened to me. They always have fresh water to drink and humidity above 50% though.

[johnc79@hotmail.com]

Seems to me like it wouldn't make any difference if they have access to clean drinking water, and adequate humidity. I've never seen snakes get dehydrated when they have that. Brumating or not.

Not really looking to start an argument again but I'm having a hard time with swallowing the dehydration issue. It's never happened to me. They always have fresh water to drink and humidity above 50% though.

Well it did happen to me and I learnt from it. They had clean water ect exactly the same way I cool my rat snakes and they were dehydrated. Now the past few years I've used wet leaves and every snake has come out in great condition. So it's a no brainer for me. No one is saying what your doing is wrong. As you say you have no problems. Maybe it's different for the species you keep or even the climate or humidity is different where you are.