I understand your reasoning to a point, BUT, I would like to share my own experience and desire to know with you.



In 2001 I suddenly got the "snake bug"... it started with a little insectivore that crawled into my classroom, and went from there to a full blown obsession. First my husband and I purchased an '01 Rosy Boa from one of the top Rosy breeders (Randy Wright) and then when that didn't satisfy my interest in these critters, hubby and I bought three '01 cal kings from a local breeder. I read up EVERYTHING I could online about these snakes, including the "how to breed colubrids" caresheets. I read it that fall, and all the next full year, and again this spring, when I felt that my female kingsnake was of a size large enough to breed. Of course I didn't remember everything in the caresheets and how-to links, but I had a deep thirst to KNOW. I just wanted to read everything. I was not so impatient that I went and bought adult animals, I was content to wait, but I wanted to learn.



I'm sitting at my computer right now, and next to my computer is the home-made rubbermaid incubator for my snakes' eggs. Two have hatched and are in their own container, and the last three days have been wondrous as I've learned and watched the beginning of life for these baby snakes.



Now I have an '02 Jungle Carpet Python. She's rapidly become my favorite snake, I just am fascinated by how different she is compared to the colubrids in my collection. (I have one Rosy Boa, the rest are colubrids). I am fascinated by the thought of breeding her, perhaps when she IS 2.5 years old. That will be the first year I breed my '01 Arizona Mountain Kingsnake as well. BUT dang it all, I want to read about it, and read some more, and read even more. I don't even HAVE a male JCP, but that doesn't keep me from wanting to read how to breed them.



Anyway, I plan now to go to the provided links in this thread and learn all I can. I'm glad that the other one posted his question and received the blast instead of me.



>>I just think he needs to pace himself. Trying to rush into breeding while still asking questions about proper husbandry makes no sense. When the time comes the answers will too. Just not important now. That sort of info needs to be fresh in your mind and as of right now he needs to concentrate on just keep them healthy and happy.

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>>http://www.moreliapythons.com
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~Sasheena



Wish List:

0.1 adult Whitewater Rosy Boa

1.0 CB Spilotes Pullatus

1.0 Jungle Carpet Python

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