corn breeding

im looking for a good care sheet on breeding corns and if anyone has any info or tips that would be great .do you have to burmutate them ?

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Originally Posted by phil7870

im looking for a good care sheet on breeding corns and if anyone has any info or tips that would be great .do you have to burmutate them ?

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I never did when i was breeding them ;).I found my breeders did better still eating during the time when others were sleeping.What other questions do you have?

what temp do you incubate ?wat time of year do you start breeding ?how long do you leave the male in with the female ? wat size tubs do you use in the incubator?i'll think of afew more

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Originally Posted by phil7870

what temp do you incubate ?wat time of year do you start breeding ?how long do you leave the male in with the female ? wat size tubs do you use in the incubator?i'll think of afew more

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The temp to incubate is 78 to 80.They normaly will not breed until springtime.If they are in the "mood" i left them together for 3 days then seperate for 3 and offer them food.I would introduce them a couple more times unless they stopped showing interest in each other.Depending on your pair it might only take one session.One more thing you should know it is possible for them to double clutch from just one breeding.Infact i had one girl that triple clutched on me :cool:.The size of the tubs depends on how big your incubator is.

you see i have 3 female and one male will i nedd 2 get another male or could i put him in with all 3 of them with a break inbetween of course. do u no of any good books

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Originally Posted by phil7870

you see i have 3 female and one male will i nedd 2 get another male or could i put him in with all 3 of them with a break inbetween of course. do u no of any good books

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If you dont push him he should be able to take care of all 3 girls.Of course as long as he is healthy in the beggining because once he gets in the mood he will more then likely stop eating.Books to learn more about breeding? I more or less learned as i went along because in my opinion most books are out of date and the info is worthless.How old are your snakes? What types of corns are they?

i have one amel female early 08 one normal female het anery and blood mid 08 one anery female mid 08 and a male ghost motley late 08 i'll proble wait till next season do you think anything good could come out of the clutchs

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Originally Posted by phil7870

i have one amel female early 08 one normal female het anery and blood mid 08 one anery female mid 08 and a male ghost motley late 08 i'll proble wait till next season do you think anything good could come out of the clutchs

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You will definatly be waiting another year maybe 2 depending on how they grow.Well you should produce ghosts for sure unless anyone of them has "hidden" genetics you are not aware of.

yeah i hope i can get sumthing cool out of them

This is a great one:

http://www.vmsherp.com/LCBreedingCorns.htm

They also have similar ones for ball python and leopard gecko breeding.

Here is a good site to help you figure out what you will get for offsring.
http://www.corncalc.com/index.jsp

I have been using this to figure out what I will get from my corns next year. :banana:

how do u use it

it dsnt tell you the morph you will get just the phenotype nstuff

Right above the calculator it says "My cornsnake isn't here, what do I do?" click on that and it shows you a list of morphs and what genes are combined to get the different morphs.

1st rule for breeding corn is 3-3-3. (3 year's old - 300 grams - 3 feet long)

Here is what i do.

Oct. 10th Fed last meal (give 2-3 weeks to finish passing last meal)
Nov. 1st Move all that i plan to breed to the basement. Their cage temp is around 75. Over the next two weeks lower the temp to 65.
Jan. 1st move them back to the reptile room and set cage tmep to 75. Over the next few week set the warm spot to about 84-85

Most of my corn will start breeding around April or May.

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amel female, normal female het anery and blood, anery female, male ghost motley

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Ghost Motley x Amel = All normal babies 100% het. amel, hypo, Motley & anery A
Ghost Motley X Anery = All anery babies 100% het. hypo & Motley
Ghost Motley X Normal het.anery & blood = (normals 100% het. Anery, hypo & Motley 50% het blood) & (Anerys 100% het. hypo & Motley 50% het blood)

i think im goin ta have alot of normals :(:(:( i hope there nice tho

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Originally Posted by reptile_jones

1st rule for breeding corn is 3-3-3. (3 year's old - 300 grams - 3 feet long)

Here is what i do.

Oct. 10th Fed last meal (give 2-3 weeks to finish passing last meal)
Nov. 1st Move all that i plan to breed to the basement. Their cage temp is around 75. Over the next two weeks lower the temp to 65.
Jan. 1st move them back to the reptile room and set cage tmep to 75. Over the next few week set the warm spot to about 84-85

Most of my corn will start breeding around April or May.



Ghost Motley x Amel = All normal babies 100% het. amel, hypo, Motley & anery A
Ghost Motley X Anery = All anery babies 100% het. hypo & Motley
Ghost Motley X Normal het.anery & blood = (normals 100% het. Anery, hypo & Motley 50% het blood) & (Anerys 100% het. hypo & Motley 50% het blood)

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Its not always neccasary(spelling sorry) to cool corns i never did.I found mine were healthier eating those couple months longer rather then hibernating.

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Originally Posted by phil7870

i think im goin ta have alot of normals :(:(:( i hope there nice tho

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Even though you will have normals they will carry genes to produce stuff later on :gj:.To be honest its the same feeling whether you produce normals or morphs :cool:

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Originally Posted by joepythons

Its not always neccasary(spelling sorry) to cool corns i never did.I found mine were healthier eating those couple months longer rather then hibernating.

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I never said it was. Read my post again, what i said was "Here is what i do."

I agree 100% that you don't need to brumate corns. As far as health, my are healthy going in and coming out of Brumation. If they are not healthy coming out then you did something wrong!!

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Originally Posted by reptile_jones

I never said it was. Read my post again, what i said was "Here is what i do."

I agree 100% that you don't need to brumate corns. As far as health, my are healthy going in and coming out of Brumation. If they are not healthy coming out then you did something wrong!!

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My bad i missed that part :P