Ready to get things underway

[Jay_Bunny]

I have gotten all my problem feeders to eat and both my female and male (the only two I'm breeding this season) are up to weight. (Female is around 1900. Male is around 580-600). I just fed them yesterday.

So how to best go about this. I want to cool them, but I know you are supposed to do it gradually. Or can you do it all at once? This is my first breeding season and I'm a bit nervous. I will be working on the incubator over the next couple of months. Probably won't put it together till November or December.

So how should I go about cooling? Since the female is in her own rack (The rack has 3 tubs and she occupies only one of them. All the other snakes are in 32qt racks). I was thinking of moving the male to her rack, in the tub below hers so I only have to cool one rack. Since its a bigger tub than he's used to I will give him two hides for him to curl up in.

[Drew87]

Im in the same boat you are, going crazy over it, i would move the male to her rack. Im going to kinda do my own thing been looking at the major breeders websites on there way of breeding, im going to cool them down but not as much as some do. I remeber West coast said that last year he didnt cool at all and still had really good results. So im going to start to drop my temps here in about a month or more. Best of luck

[Jay_Bunny]

Can you breed successfully without cooling? Even if its still warm, can you pair them as you would even if you are cooling. Few days in, few days out? I know the cooling process gets them in the mood, but I don't have a night temperature drop feature on my thermostat so I would have to go and lower the temperature every night if I was to cool. I keep temps at 92 on the hot side and mid 80's on the ambient side. (temps in the house fluctuate between 73-78 right now). Would tossing in the male now do anything or would they just sit there and ignore each other?

[Drew87]

You will never know unless you try, ive thrown males into females tubs just to see what happens, and almost as soon as the females find out the males there i start to see tail wagging ext. So im still going to lower the temps but only about 5 dregrees. So let me know if you run across anything that helps. Best of luck

[Jay_Bunny]

I may try not cooling and just placing the male in with the female. If I see no action, then I'll cool.

[Freakie_frog]

Since I am new at this myself I can only tell you what I did.
I didn't cool at all I tried and due to my rooms RH% I had 2 RI creep up on me and decided not to cool. I started pairing on Thanksgiving Day and didn't see my first lock till Janurary. Could cooling have helped speed things up? Maybe, but it wasn't worth risking a bad RI in a gravid female for me to rush things. I started watching the barometric pressure in my room. When the pressure would drop I would pair them up and BOOM! I was getting locks left and right it was great.

cheers

[Jay_Bunny]

How would you measure the pressure. I go to weather.com all the time and I can see the current pressure. (right now its at 30.20 with a little arrow pointing ->) Can I use this to measure pressure in my area for breeding purposes or should I get an actual pressure meter...thingy? And what is considered low pressure? We are not supposed to have rain till next Friday.

[Freakie_frog]

How would you measure the pressure. I go to weather.com all the time and I can see the current pressure. (right now its at 30.20 with a little arrow pointing ->) Can I use this to measure pressure in my area for breeding purposes or should I get an actual pressure meter...thingy? And what is considered low pressure? We are not supposed to have rain till next Friday.

I just got me one of those wall Barometers it has an average high and low area I watched for a little while what my average reading in PSI was then when I saw it dropping I'd pair up..Oh and I would mist the tubs of paired animals. I'd say get you a barometer. The pressure in your room may be vastly different than where weather.com's testing station is.

[Drew87]

I just got me one of those wall Barometers it has an average high and low area I watched for a little while what my average reading in PSI was then when I saw it dropping I'd pair up..Oh and I would mist the tubs of paired animals. I'd say get you a barometer. The pressure in your room may be vastly different than where weather.com's testing station is.

Thank you frog man that helps alot!!!!

[Jay_Bunny]

Where can you get a barometer? Can you get them at a place like Southern States or Walmart?