Cycling snakes, cooling etc.

[hungba]

When I first started breeding, I had no experience so I just called up a famous breeder and he shared his breeding methods with me. It involved keeping the ambient of the room to 75 to 77 with space heater, not letting it get lower, and just turning off the heat tape at night from oct to feb.

It worked, so despite reading how peope did not cool at all to breed and it was fine, I didn't want to "fix what wasn't broken", and just kept doing it. Besides, people would say they "don't cool", but then say that just means they "let temperatures drop naturally", so it is hard to even know what they are really doing.

I've bred successfully for a few years now, and while what I am doing works, it is becoming a pain in the butt. Electric bill to keep the room at 75-77 is going up as the collection grows and so does the snake room. The bigger room makes it harder to keep temperatures even as well, requiring fans here, there, everywhere. Bigger room now needs more heating and humidity goes down, so now I added a humidifier.

I am wondering if I can get the same results if I just forget all that crap, and just keep my hotspots at 90 year round, and as they say, "let the ambient temps drop naturally".

In order to eliminate the room heating hassles, that means I will not heat the room AT ALL. Now, here it seldom gets lower than 60f indoors through winter. I wonder if hot spots at 90F in a room at 60f is too dangerous with regards to RI. Or would the snakes just end up on the 90f hotspot all the time, affecting results.