Do you cool your ball pythons?

First year breeding I have 3 snakes as of right now. I am going to follow this recipe. http://www.jkobylkareptiles.com/pdfs...hedule_Doc.pdf (He has had success and hoping I do.) Hope this kinda helps.

In the beginning I dropped temps on my thermostat's and it seemed work just fine. The only problem I ran into was that I had animals that I wasn't breeding in the same racks and the lower temps seemed to effect their eating, many slowed down and other's went totally off food.
So I did this for two or three years and then last year I didn't touch the thermostats but rather cooled the room so as to get their cool spot colder i.e. down in to the upper 70's. What I noticed was that I could tell who was really doing what. Females that were breeding but hugging their warm spot I didn't even bother to palpate. I would see females breed and never move off of their warm spot for weeks then boom! they have that belly pressed against the cold end of that tub they'd stay there for weeks even months and once I saw them move back to the hot side I knew to watch for an OVY soon. This allowed me to let the females develop at their pace on their schedule and not mine. As a result I only saw 5 slugs out of 78 eggs this year. Do I cool them down..no but I let them cool themselves as they need and want to. The other thing this does is for the animals that aren't breeding in that rack they aren't deprived of heat so they eat through the winter and do just fine.

Hope that helps.