I have not "brumated" them at all but my house get a chill in the air no matter what I do. I live in Chicago and my night time temps in my house get into the 60's with their heat lights on during the day. The chilly air seems to spur them on for sure. That is just my experience and I have only bred them the last 2 years.

The babies are for sale now because it takes some time to get them feeding but they hatch out for most breeders from late May- early July with June being my month. Also a couple bigger guys got some clutches from breeders at pretty low prices and in an effort to dump them asap they put them up as non-feeders for super cheap. That sort of put the whole market price into question with folks that do not understand all the work going into breeding, hatching, and getting the babies to feed trying to get feeding babies from guys who are producing them themselves for the wholesaler market crashing price on non-feeders.

Myself and some of the others that put the work in on these have refused to half our prices just because 3 clutches went to market at wholesale. The buyers are waiting for some hot looking babies to come up for sale at the wholesale price and that is not going to happen but in the mean time the market has a misconceived lower baby price to the point that I am not even marketing my 2010 babies. I am instead just sitting back enjoying watching them grow and changing my mind on which animals to hold back. I really love these snakes and truly enjoy working with them more than anything else besides my Pseustes so I am more than happy to sit back and feed them.

From what I have seen in the cheap babies, they have been quite dark with muddy patterns and not feeding. In one pic I saw in an add a while back there were visible skin folds in the rear half of the snake... not what I would want to drop a grand on. I don't really expect to see many more of these quick dump clutch sales next year, they are just not that easy to breed.



Jason

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