breeding environment...?

[Rusty]

No problem. I'm going to provide a link to a care sheet that might help you take better care of your snakes not that your doing a bad job because like you said you don't really know the exact temps inside the tank (which you really should).

Here's the link
http://www.ball-pythons.net/modules....warticle&id=52

Breeding Link:
http://ballpythons.ca/gallery/breeding.html

With temps lower than 80 Degrees your snakes can develop RI (respiratory infection) this can also be spread from snake to snake. So since you have yours housed together they can both get it easily. This is something I have learned on this forum. If you house snakes together if one of them gets sick so does the other and so on, Hope the links help.

- Rusty

[cyclops81]

Gracias! =)

[Rusty]

De nada! Hey, I edited my last post and added some info about RI. ^

[Rusty]

JLC is absolutely right. Also, walmart is like a reptile heaven for supplies in disguise. You can find just about everything there and for cheaper too. Just search the forum for "walmart" and you'll see lol.

[cyclops81]

JLC- thank you for all the pointers...ill try to pick one up today at wal mart...im going to be near wal mart anyways. =)

Rusty- thanks for your help too =)

[Rusty]

Anytime. By the way that breeding link I posted has a lot of pictures of breeding BPs so you can compare the behaviour to yours.

[cyclops81]

i found that site actaully before i stumbled across this one. but that picture of the male and female "locking" is exactly what my snakes were doing. but they were kinda moving...as if trying to get the right angle or something and the thing was i was going to take them out to sit with me and watch tv cuz they usually just chill out around my neck or on my lap or they lay on my belly (*warm*) and i i noticed that they were staying together even more than usual but didnt think anything of it and when i reached in Cyclops jumped more than usual and then Turtle did...and she never does so i picked them up (and didnt think anything about them being all intertwined at all cuz thats how they hang out sometimes) and i tried seperating them but their tales were wrapped around each others and didnt come apart smoothly as they would have if they werent mating and i just wicked quickly went "oh my god i think theyre doing it!" and i put them back and put the cover back on and i felt embarrased and bad cuz who wants to be caught in the act?! so i went and told my boyfriend and when we went back up there he was in the rock and she was under the hammock so we just put a blanket over the cage to kinda give them privacy in case they engaged again. i went back up there a little while after and they were intertwined under the hammock again.

[Rusty]

I see, I'm glad nothing bad happened to the snakes when you separated them. Do you know the weights and ages of your snakes? Also, do you want your snakes to breed?