Hi tom, good to hear from you. Ques: Last year you put an UN-brumated male X 5 females and only one produced eggs that hatched. Did you brumate the males you're going to use this year x 15 females?

terry



>>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.

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>>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.

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>>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.

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>>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.

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>>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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