To Brumate or not to Brumate?

Ok so hopefully this will be my first year at breeding some of my ball pythons. I have researched and found some do cool down their snakes and others dont and their snakes stil breed. So if you do cool down please post the temps you keep and for how long please. thank you.

73-75 is what I did last year.

I keep temps 80 cool side in winter and summer. No cycling of temps here ever.

What i do do, is put in COLD water in their water bowls. Which gives females developing something cool to wrap while still having warmth.

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Originally Posted by Animals As Leaders

73-75 is what I did last year.

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Did you stil offer a basking spot but cooler. I read on one site that they did 72 on the cool side and on the warm side 82. Thanks for sharing how you do things and thats to everyone who does share.

Ball pythons do not brumate. I keep my temps normal during the day and drop the hot side temp by 6-8 degrees at night I also shorten the light cycle. I pretty much follow Ralph Davis' breeding method with a little tweaking to fit my needs. He has a great write up on his site of what he does.

Well I meant cool down not brumate. I used brumate cause i heard some call refer to cooling them even though they do not actually brumate. So thank you for correcting me I will avoid using the term when refering to ball pythons and thank you for guiding me to Ralph Davis knowledge. I havent been on his site in a long time and never looked at his info on breeding.

i didnt change anything. worked well for me:)

I offered an 85 degree hot spot

No cooling for me in my first year, this year and 2 fully fertile clutches out of 4 girls bred. 8 and 9 eggs.

This is my first year breeding my balls, but I never cool my corns and I've been breeding them for a few years now. I don't plan to cool my bps.

I don't change temps. It may work better for some who knows . I just start tossing them together and poof there are lock ups..

I drop my room temp slowly to 76*F. and keep it there thru breeding season. no up and down temps. this is working well for me. like the saying goes don't fix something thats not broke :) don

Nobody "Brumates' a ball python! Ball pythons do not brumate! They would die @ 55-65 degrees, which is the approx. range that reptiles brumate. All you guys are doing is lowering temp just a little. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by grcforce327

Nobody "Brumates' a ball python! Ball pythons do not brumate! They would die @ 55-65 degrees, which is the approx. range that reptiles brumate. All you guys are doing is lowering temp just a little. :rolleyes:

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If you read the entire thread, they corrected his terminology in a nice way. Why do you always have to come off as a know it all???

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