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Posted by: Bluerosy at Tue Mar 18 22:47:39 2014   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Bluerosy ]  
   

I kinda have the chicken farm mentality when raising snakes.. In other words I have been working with hundreds of adults and producing thousands of baby Florida kings for many years. I kinda have seen everything there is to see. So that makes me an expert.

Before that I used to do the TFH or cookie cutter method of a forced cooling and then introducing a male into a females cage (mind you, fed the hell out of them back then also) and there was cannibalistic activity and I lost several..!

What else did I do wrong? Well I kept the snakes at a steady 85 degrees F. That meant the snakes had no choices.. What I encountered back then was males that were sterile, bad clutches (duds) and just poor years of production.. much like I still here about from breeders who cannot understand the ecology of the snakes. So they blame it on weather or whatever else they can think of.


What I do know is I keep the heat on and the room temp cold. This way the snakes can choose temps and, believe it or not, the snakes actually brumate themselves.. they actually know what temps to choose and are able to survive without being controlled by us.
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