When do you raise temps back up?

I have been breeding since november with no obvious signs of anything yet except possible building. I have heard of people raising temps back up march first and getting a good breeding response but is this what everyone does or do you keep temps down until the last female lays? Right now I have 76 ambient and 85 hot spot.

Anybody have some input?

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Originally Posted by gulfexports159

Anybody have some input?

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Not sure if I will be any help to you, But this is my frist year back breeding just ball pythons after a very long time away from the hobby. But have heard very mixed reviews from several breeders. Some cool others do not. This year I decieded against cooling and had great success in having alot of locks and have a female that did go thru ovulation and a shed cycle. But there is no guarantee that she will produce viable eggs. Just my 2 cents though. Your idea does sound right though. I think alot of breeders do as you said and cool up till a female goes thru an ovulation and also heard that some breeders cool thru valentine's day then start the warm up. Hope this was some help.

I don't change temps if I can help it. Too many others have commented that they used to, but now they don't. And they don't have any different results with breeding. I think it's unnecessary.

I quit the whole night dropping game pretty much after years of doing it and now i just keep my ambient room temps at 84 and humidity is at 60%. My racks are all set at 89 for the balls and 86 for the carpets.

I don't really drop my temps, but when girls are getting close to laying I make sure my hot spot temps aren't any higher than what I want my bator temp.

Yep, I raised my temperatures back up about 3 years ago, lol.
What I get less of now...are respiratory infections, so I'm sold on no temp drops for ball pythons.

Ok guys maybe I wont drop temps next year then I dont know. But thanks for the input guys.

When I did drop temps, I would drop in middle of Nov and raise them on April 1. now I keep my rack temps constant but the ambient room temps drop with the weather.