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latin1956
at Fri Feb 24 14:25:59 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by latin1956 ]
4 years ago I lived in Puerto Rico, I was there for 7 years and I had Corns, Hondos, Pueblans and Gray Banded, also other things. The first year I used an old Frige and tried to keep the temp at 52-55f. The snakes did okay, had many eggs. Then I move to another house in Puerto Rico and the temps from Nov till Feb during the night would get to about 68-74F. I did not use the old frige anymore Ijust let mother nature to her thing. I did not do anything about the light cycle since there where windows in the room where I kept the snakes. I always had sucess with the breeding of all the snakes.
Now I am living in Colorado near Denver and this will be my 2nd year breeding my hondos. Last year I did the Brumation thing in my basement crawl space where the temp was 55-50F. I had 5 females last year and all of them mated and I only had one clutch hatch and the male I used was one that I did not brumate at all. The room I use to keep my snakes gets sun shine all day long and I do not heat it at all. This year I have 15 females to try it again and see what happens. They were all brumated and this year them temps were somewhat lower since it was colder this year. I just took them out this past Sunday and all of them are eating but one that is in blue. I will post a follow-up to see what happens. But I think that next year I will not brumate them to see what happens.
I use belly heat and use the Helix units to maintain the temps. I also have a pair of Irian's that all I did was shut the heat off for 30 days and they mated and the females is very fat and stays coiled up over the heated area. I did the same with a pair of Ball Pythons and they mated this week for me and I am keeping my fingers crossed because they are het albinos.
Will keep you guys posted. Just wanted to share. One more thing I have a very good friend in Puerto Rico that just keeps them in a room and he does not use any type of heat at all and he keeps Chondros, Boas, Pythons, Milks and Corns and gets many babies.
Sorry for the long post.
Tom
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Thomas Sierra
1.1 Irian Jaya
1.1 Ball Pythons Het For Albino
Alb Honduran 3.3
Hypo Honduran 2.2
Anery Hondo 3.7
Tangerine Alb Hondo 1.0
DH Snow Hondo 2.0
Het Tang Alb Hondo 3.3
Het Pin Stripe Hypo 0.1
Triple Het Hondos 1.1
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This is what I have done!!!!!! - latin1956, Fri Feb 24 14:25:59 2006