ball python breeding help.

I have just bought a 3 foot male pastel to live in the same habitat with my female normal(3 1/2 feet). I want to breed them next season how ahould i cycle them? should thay be seporated? Will there be uncontroled breeding? please anyone that can help, please do. :)

Each snake needs to have its own home. You should also practice quarantine. As for breeding, I do 3 on and 3 to 4 days off for rest and feeding.

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Well first off not going to get much help with lack of quarantine. Why breed snakes if you cant even properly house the ones you have already.

Beings you openly state you keep snakes together, especially new acquired ones with out quarantining them. Not knowing the risks of housing snakes together to just do it o na whim shows us a lot about your experience. Then ask for breeding tips to produce more babies in which i bet you will never move/sell due to your lack of husbandry practice. I say till you learn how to properly house/care for the snakes DO NOT BREED.

May sound harsh but tired of every person hopping into breeding without basic care even practiced properly and wanting to bring more lives into the world just to have the experience, BS. 99.99% of people breeding ANYTHING is to sell the babies to further your projects.

Im sure others will add to this beyond what i can think of at 8am.

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Originally Posted by RichsBallPythons

Well first off not going to get much help with lack of quarantine. Why breed snakes if you cant even properly house the ones you have already.

Beings you openly state you keep snakes together, especially new acquired ones with out quarantining them. Not knowing the risks of housing snakes together to just do it o na whim shows us a lot about your experience. Then ask for breeding tips to produce more babies in which i bet you will never move/sell due to your lack of husbandry practice. I say till you learn how to properly house/care for the snakes DO NOT BREED.

May sound harsh but tired of every person hopping into breeding without basic care even practiced properly and wanting to bring more lives into the world just to have the experience, BS. 99.99% of people breeding ANYTHING is to sell the babies to further your projects.

Im sure others will add to this beyond what i can think of at 8am.

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:colbert: I agree with this.

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Originally Posted by earthdragons737

I have just bought a 3 foot male pastel to live in the same habitat with my female normal(3 1/2 feet). I want to breed them next season how ahould i cycle them? should thay be seporated? Will there be uncontroled breeding? please anyone that can help, please do. :)

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Yea, dude they are right. Know as much as you can before you put yourself into anything. Also you need to QT that male, I have had very healthy snakes(2) die because I did not QT the the new snake sitting in the cage right next to thier's. I don't think they are trying to be harsh I think they just know what happens when you dont know your husbandry.

Well as it looks you came here and that was your first question. my guess is you think that you will breed and be able to make "tons of money". When you really have no clue what you are doing in the first place. You need to do research before you put the health of any animal at risk. it makes me want to question the person that sold you the male without asking about your cages...ect.

First of all, I do think that the responses were a bit heavy handed, not knowing much more than what the OP presented in four sentences.

We ALL started with zero knowledge on caring for reptiles, we ALL learned making mistakes.

To the OP - if you are hoping to breed in the future, the first and most important thing you must learn is to protect your existing collection, even if that existing collection is one animal (your female). You protect it by quarantining any new animals that you bring into the collection at the complete opposite end of your home, and preferably in another building if you can. You work with your existing collection first, and your QT animals last, so as not to transfer anything from the QT animals to your existing animals.

And then you shower and change clothes after working with your QT animals.

That's QT 101.

Secondly - ball pythons should not be housed together, especially by the novice keeper. People have housed them together successfully, but those are people with more experience, who are tuned into the subtle cues of stress, etc.

With ball pythons we generally recommend one snake per enclosure, except for the three days each time you pair them for breeding.

thank you I got a new cage for the male i will be keeping them away from eachother so they will be QT and they will be taking vet trips to be probed the right way and checked for internal/external parasites. i wasent trying to jump into breeding right away, i was doing research on it and finding out info. i wasent looking to make money just have a little fun with breeding. We all started with little knolage with reptiles. I thank every one for there help

New snakes should be quarantined for at least three months, to make sure they have no disease or mites. Also, BP's after a few months of age should not be permanently caged together. This can cause unnecessary stress. They can breed, especially now while the females follicles are still enlarging, but this can endanger your female if she is under 1200g.

I would give them separate cages until ready to breed.
Hope this helped:gj:

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Originally Posted by LeviBP

New snakes should be quarantined for at least three months, to make sure they have no disease or mites. Also, BP's after a few months of age should not be permanently caged together. This can cause unnecessary stress. They can breed, especially now while the females follicles are still enlarging, but this can endanger your female if she is under 1200g.

I would give them separate cages until ready to breed.
Hope this helped:gj:

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this helped thank you and i agree

You should have just stuck with one until you gain the knowledge to care for it! Here is a great caresheet: http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...ius)-Caresheet Follow that and your snakes will be happy! Breeding is a big undertaking! You will need a rack for the babies, tubs, waterdishes, thermostat, food, heat and an incubator! It may take awhile to sell them so you will need a good supply of rats for a couple months. I am not trying to scare you but alot of people don't realize the costs to just get started and the amount of babies you will have to produce and sell just to break even! You should build a rack which is cheaper than buying a couple tanks then you will have proper housing for multiple snakes!

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Originally Posted by earthdragons737

thank you I got a new cage for the male i will be keeping them away from eachother so they will be QT and they will be taking vet trips to be probed the right way and checked for internal/external parasites. i wasent trying to jump into breeding right away, i was doing research on it and finding out info. i wasent looking to make money just have a little fun with breeding. We all started with little knolage with reptiles. I thank every one for there help

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This site should answer all of your breeding questions, once you are sure you have your husbandry down: http://ballpythons.ca/gallery/breeding.html

Good luck.

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Originally Posted by seeya205

You should have just stuck with one until you gain the knowledge to care for it! Here is a great caresheet: http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...ius)-Caresheet Follow that and your snakes will be happy! Breeding is a big undertaking! You will need a rack for the babies, tubs, waterdishes, thermostat, food, heat and an incubator! It may take awhile to sell them so you will need a good supply of rats for a couple months. I am not trying to scare you but alot of people don't realize the costs to just get started and the amount of babies you will have to produce and sell just to break even! You should build a rack which is cheaper than buying a couple tanks then you will have proper housing for multiple snakes!

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Did you really just say that?

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i wasent trying to jump into breeding right away, i was doing research on it and finding out info.

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thanks alot guys/girls! :)