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11-May-08, 09:13 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-08 Location: Townsville Gender:  | | | feeding a possible breeding female?
Hey guys,
As some of you know I am looking into breeding this year but due to my boy snake having a bit of the jitters it may take a while to get them together. I had ceased feeding my female and was just wondering if i should start feeding her again as the introduction of my male and female may take a while or since she's being cooled should i continue to cease her feeding? This is my first year breeding so I just want to make sure i'm on the right track and not unintentionally hurting my snakes...
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11-May-08, 09:17 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: northern vic Age/Gender: 41  | | | | How long ago did you discontinue feeding and when did you start the cooling process |
11-May-08, 09:23 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-08 Location: Townsville Gender: | | | | I started to cease feeding about a month ago and started cooling around 2 weeks ago... |
11-May-08, 09:29 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: northern vic Age/Gender: 41 | | | | If you wish to continue cooling dont feed and the same goes with the male,But having saidthat
there are some really successful breeders that feed right through .
You are very early into the cooling process and have the next 3 months at least
to possiably get a mating that may be successful.
What temp ranges are you keeping the pythons at ? |
11-May-08, 09:35 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-08 Location: Townsville Gender: | | | | It drops to about 20 during the night and around 26 during the day... Its kind of hard to get lower as i'm in Townsville but it is a drop compared to the temps in summer... |
11-May-08, 09:40 PM
|  | Roadkill Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-05 Location: Western Sydney Age/Gender: 25 | | | | I wouldn't feed her, keep cooling them - how are you cooling them at the moment? Are you switching the heat off at night and providing normal heat during the day?
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11-May-08, 09:43 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: northern vic Age/Gender: 41 | | | | At 26 during the day i wouldnt be feeding, jmo
We havent feed our spotteds for the last 8 weeks and wont be starting again
until the early spring [same goes for all our Anteresia], we do this every year
with no probs at all. You have made the temp drop a little to sudden as you should take
a few degrees of every month until you have reached the lower end of the range needed |
11-May-08, 10:08 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-08 Location: Townsville Gender: | | | | Theres no heat during the night and all one side of my room is a window so that is open during the day for heat... the end of their enclosure faces towards the window and another away so if it does get too hot they can move to the other side of the enclosure... |
11-May-08, 10:44 PM
| | Roadkill Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-05 Location: Western Sydney Age/Gender: 25 | | | | Personally, i'd be offering heat during the day. I know a lot of people up north don't feel there is a need but i wouldn't take the risk. The majority of pythons have a preferred body temperature of around 30 degrees, and if they're only getting ambient temps it could cause some health issues to arise.
Your male should have a change of attitude when the cooler nights kick in. Just be patient and do what you can to get the night time temps down a bit - leaving the window open during the night should help.
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