Incubation Question

I have started pairing my corn snakes (1 week on, 1 week off) and so far I haven't seen any "activity". But I was wondering about egg incubation. If I do happen to get eggs, which seems unlikely since I did not brumate (I just don't have the ability to get them cold enough. It never goes below 72-75 in this house) what temperature do I incubate at. I only have one incubator and it looks like I will be breeding 2-3 ball python females and this one female corn. So I have the possibility of having 3-4 clutches of eggs this season. My incubator can hold 2 clutches at one time. (2 of the ball python females won't be bred until later in the season). I incubate ball python eggs at 88.5. Would it be possible to incubate the corn snake eggs along with the ball python eggs?

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Originally Posted by Jay_Bunny

I have started pairing my corn snakes (1 week on, 1 week off) and so far I haven't seen any "activity". But I was wondering about egg incubation. If I do happen to get eggs, which seems unlikely since I did not brumate (I just don't have the ability to get them cold enough. It never goes below 72-75 in this house) what temperature do I incubate at. I only have one incubator and it looks like I will be breeding 2-3 ball python females and this one female corn. So I have the possibility of having 3-4 clutches of eggs this season. My incubator can hold 2 clutches at one time. (2 of the ball python females won't be bred until later in the season). I incubate ball python eggs at 88.5. Would it be possible to incubate the corn snake eggs along with the ball python eggs?

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Well when i was breeding them i never cooled them because in my opinion its a waste of time.I would feed them until they refused ;).No you can not incubate them in the same temps as ball python as its to high.I incubated around 78 degrees.If they are not in the mood wait a little while maybe a month and they will let you know when they want each other when you place them together lol.

Its quite early to start pairing them. If you aren't going to cool them for a brumation, then they'll probably still go for you, but not until next spring. I'd personally wait until March to start trying to pair them. You'll be more successful then.

And 88 is too warm for corn eggs. I aim for 78-82.

Thanks! I figured it was too early but I couldn't resist trying. I've separated them for now and will try pairing them in the Spring. I want to try and get another female this fall to breed with my hypo as well so that will give me time to get a nice morph and quarantine. :) What morph would be good to pair with a hypo. I know that hypo is simple recessive. One of my goals is to produce Blizzards but for that I'd need a male charcoal. Hmm. I can't decide.

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Originally Posted by Jay_Bunny

Thanks! I figured it was too early but I couldn't resist trying. I've separated them for now and will try pairing them in the Spring. I want to try and get another female this fall to breed with my hypo as well so that will give me time to get a nice morph and quarantine. :) What morph would be good to pair with a hypo. I know that hypo is simple recessive. One of my goals is to produce Blizzards but for that I'd need a male charcoal. Hmm. I can't decide.

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Get anything with hypo in it. Hypo blood, hypo lav, phantom, ghost stripe, etc. I'd pick something that you really like that has hypo in it and that you'd like to produce more of and go for it!:banana:

Ghost has hypo in it?

my temps are usually set at 28 ish, but they do go up and down a fair bit. i dont worry too much, as long as its not miles out.
personally i always hibernate, the 2 years i didnt i had really bad results, this year i did again and did the best i;d done by a long way.
its a personal preference, some dont like to, as above they think its a waste of time etc, for me its a waste not to as most of mine dont breed.
i'm over in the uk tho, so the climate is probably different from where you guys live.