Hi Adam,

The usual suspected cause for slugs is not allowing the males to get cool enough. Sperm deforms or dies when temps get consistantly too high. I very rarely get slugs with any of my kings or pythons, but I allow mine to get much cooler than many keepers, if the animals choose. At night in my herp building, my surface temps can get to the high fifties on really cold nights. While the balls always have the option to get much warmer, they often choose cooler temps. I've shot several with a temp gun that were sitting comfortably in the mid-60s at night. So far, this year these include two females that delivered 100% fertile clutches that hatched, a couple that ovulated this week, and a few that have bred multiple times and are growing big follicles now.

Cool with warm options will not hurt them, warm without cool options can definately be harmful.

Will

PS - did you have a question about the pastel sire of Lyn's dinkers?

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