This is my first season attempting to breed ball pythons and I need some help. I have some adult proven breeder males as wells as some adult females. I started cooling them in late November because I didn't have the room setup until then. I gave them a month to cool and started putting them together in mid-December. I have continued to offer food and most of them are either refusing or only eating sporadically since I started cooling them. So far I have only witnessed copulation between one pair on once occasion.

The snakes are currently being housed in a Freedom Breeder rack. I have the hot spots during the day at 95 and at night it goes down to 85 via a photoelectric cell I have attached to the Helix control. The ambient temps during the day are about 84 which I achieve through the use of an oil filled heater hooked up to a thermostat. The heater goes off at about 3:30pm each day so the ambient temps at night can get down to about 72. I live in Arizona which is VERY dry so in addition to misting the cypress mulch every few days I also use a warm mist humidifier in the room that runs constantly. The humidity ranges from 55% to about 75% depending on if the heater is on or not. The snakes have all been sexed and appear healthy. I have also tried male to male combat but they didn't seem to combat.

Am I doing something wrong or am I just being impatient? Or worse yet, did I just wait to long to cool them?

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