Dont know if this helps or answers your question but i breed all year round. To do this i have my animals seperated in breeding groups. My ambient room temps in my snake room stay at 80 degrees. Now back to the breeding groups. I have one group that start cooling in september, a second group that starts cooling in january and a third that starts cooling in june. I never deviate from that. For example the animals that start cooling in september will always cool in september and same with the other groups. By keeping a constant ambient temp year round in the room at 80 it allows for the 10 degree night drop at any time considering my racks are all set at 90. Of course its not a perfect science but my odds have been great doing this and ive been doing it this way for about 10 years. Before that i used to only cool in the fall but i also didnt have the amount of animals then that i do now. Plus i stopped doing boas and big pythons 10 years ago so that helped. Ive only been doing balls for the past 10 years. Now to keep your temps in the room all ya got to do is close off all air duct vents in your snake room and put an oil filled type of space heater in the room and hook it up to its own thermostat. I like helix and johnson controls myself. I also make sure that every rack has its own thermostat. Hope this helps
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