Is brumating necessary

[Crusader71]

I'm hoping to breed for my first time my male normal with my female Candycane to get soem swwet Amels and was wondering if brumating was necessary?

[Lolo76]

I'd say no, because I have friends who "unexpectedly" ended up with corn babies, and I guarantee they didn't brumate! My roommate said he used to have 3 unsexed corns who lived in the same tank, and they produced something like 25 babies in a year... so I assume they can do the job without a cooling period.

[joepythons]

I'm hoping to breed for my first time my male normal with my female Candycane to get soem swwet Amels and was wondering if brumating was necessary?

I never wasted the time cooling them

[mason]

We've never cooled a corn snake in our snake keeping days. We keep ours at the ambient temp of our reptile room (and we're in the UK!).


Come the right time of the year, in go the boys and (eventually) out comesome eggs.

We get great clutch sizes and have a 100% hatch rate AND a 100% survival rate (bar one escapee bloodred hatchling when the 09s were tiny which I am assuming has perished by now but it hatched, ate and thrived before doing a runner out of our hatchling racking. This season we've paired somewhere around 20 adult females with males and (the OH keeps track of corn breeding not me so i'm not 100% sure) as far as I know we've had mating in every pair so far.

We get decent clutches, healthy hatchlings and even "double clutchers" without brumating our corns.

The corns:

http://masonexotics.co.uk/corns.aspx

The breedings:

http://masonexotics.co.uk/Pairings_2010.aspx

[Lolo76]

If you ask my snakes, clearly not. I didn't end up brumating mine at all, since it's impossible to get the low temps here (it's temperate weather year-round)... and the first time I introduced them this week, it was ON!! So while I hear it is very helpful, apparently it's not necessary for successful mating.

[nbelval]

We've never cooled a corn snake in our snake keeping days. We keep ours at the ambient temp of our reptile room (and we're in the UK!).


Come the right time of the year, in go the boys and (eventually) out comesome eggs.

We get great clutch sizes and have a 100% hatch rate AND a 100% survival rate (bar one escapee bloodred hatchling when the 09s were tiny which I am assuming has perished by now but it hatched, ate and thrived before doing a runner out of our hatchling racking. This season we've paired somewhere around 20 adult females with males and (the OH keeps track of corn breeding not me so i'm not 100% sure) as far as I know we've had mating in every pair so far.

We get decent clutches, healthy hatchlings and even "double clutchers" without brumating our corns.

The corns:

http://masonexotics.co.uk/corns.aspx

The breedings:

http://masonexotics.co.uk/Pairings_2010.aspx

What temps are your room at then?
Wish I had seen this post earlier. I just put my male and female in the dark and cool basement (65 degrees). It's been about 2 weeks. Should I continue cooling or just slowly warm them up again? I don't want to mess them up, but if they don't need it, then why put them through it, right?
Thanks!

[JustMeBC]

I'm hoping to breed for my first time my male normal with my female Candycane to get soem swwet Amels and was wondering if brumating was necessary?

Just curious is your Normal is het for amel?
Breeding a normal to amel will only give you normals that will be het for amel. That is unless it is het for amel. If you don't know what the parents were then there is always the chance of there being hets.
But, I wish you luck with breeding them. I'm going to be breeding my corns this year too.

[theturtlepond]

There is always the 3 months of no heating and no feeding to consider.