I don't beleive heat kills the sperm if there is a hot spot and the snake can get away from it. Unless...





I am not even sure heat kills sperm in snakes as much as taking your snake out of brumation in Feb... the question i must ask is WHEN do your snakes breed? Do they go a month? Two months? Three months? if there is a prolonged period of 'waking " them and them copulating, lets say April or May. i would advice against waking them up early.



In my experience bringing up snakes in Feburary by turning the heat up to 82F-85F and feeding them like crazy is what may be the problem. Maybe the time it takes from "waking them up", to actually copulating is to long? Or maybe the males don't actually copulate at all because we don't always see them. Maybe they missed their window or are out of sinc with nature (by nature I mean=what is going on outdoors in your hemisphere).



My snakes pretty much breed right out of brumation . I just feed the heck out of them after they start copulating in May. They are in tune with what is going on outdoors.



Here in Georgia in early May we have the trees start to bud and the grass starts to turn green after being brown all winter. This is when my snakes breed, Irregardless of when i "wake them up", THEY STILL WAIT UNTIL THAT TIME when the season changes outdoors. The few times i have tried to "wake them up" in febuary, I had a terrible year. You know, the kind where you complain of infertile eggs, snakes that don't ovulate, full term dead in the egg babies or males that do not get aroused.



What happens then is they either go until late summer before they try copluating again or they are worthless for the entire season.



That is at least my interpretation of a "terrible year".



now before anyone states they live in Alaska, Wisconsin or Idaho or something. My answer is i don't have a clue what to do except wait.
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