Do you cool your ball pythons?

I'm in Minnesota, and don't adjust my thermostat at all. The room temps are lower which lowers the cool side some during the winter. So not anything I "do" but I guess they are cooled kind of. Seems to be more "natural"? Works for them I guess, I just got my third clutch this year today.

I don't cool my collection Mother nature does it for me... :D Where I am located in the northeast I have found that my reptile room gets cooled naturally when the season's change. The only thing I do is adjust the light cycles and lower all temps 1-2 degree's at most for my breeder's. By following the wonderful New England weather I have never had to do more than that and have had 100% lay rate from females I intended to breed.... This works for me for the climate I'm in but if I was somewhere else I would still cool them as I find better lay rates when they do.. :gj:

we sleep with the window open usually. we have corns, balls, and rainbows, but they're all used to night drops so we just let the window do it's thing.

mind you, we've only had 1 successful clutch of BP eggs hatch so far, and that was last year. we had another clutch go bad, after the female kept them inside for 85 days post-ovulation! we have another clutch in the bator that is looking FANTASTIC actually!

so don't take my word on it, but i don't think it's major weather or not you cool

i didnt do..but work well so far.

Definitely!!! Night and day temps are cooler for breeders.

The one time I didn't cool a bunch of females I got over 50 slugs...Won't do that again!

I have had several females lay perfect clutches of eggs being kept at night time temps around 74 and day temps about 85.

IMO heat is a follicles worst enemy!

I live in Florida and have only been breeding for 2 years but I don't lower any temps but cages get a little lower when the fronts move through it just gets naturally lower temps. I have hatched 44 good eggs with no slugs in the 2 years of breeding and I usually start pairing when that first good weather front comes through.

i do not cool. the room itself gets slightly cooler come fall\winter but the temp on the hot spot stays the same.

Cooled our first year, had decent results. Didn't cool last year and the results were anything but spectacular. I think living in Arizona may have had more of an impact on the need for cooling as opposed to everyone speaking up from the midwest and east coast. Going back to cooling this year, so that they get the hint that breeding season starts in November rather than February when it finally gets cool around here for about a week.

That being said, will probably only be dropping night time temps and keeping daytime temps normal or at least within a few degrees of normal.

I thought it is necessary for burmation to cool your BP for breeding?

Lance

When I last bred them I never cooled them and it didn't dissuade the snakes one bit. 4 out of 4 females produced clutches.