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markg
at Fri Oct 28 14:22:41 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by markg ]
I actually meant to put that above post under JETZEN's.
But to answer your question in your other post, yes I have seen pyro breed and produce with a virtually no cooldown, or a very mild cooldown.
A friend had adult pyros CB. He kept them in a barn-like structure where he housed some boa constrictors. He used a space heater to keep the air temp from falling below 72 deg or so, although the floor got cooler.
The room was quite humid nearly year round. Not at all what I would previously have thought of as a good environment for pyro. Yet, his pyro produced healthy eggs and offspring w/o being subjected to below 65 deg temps in Winter and usually warmer. Just doesn't seem right, does it? Yet it happened, 2 or 3 years in a row before he sold the pyro adults.
Lets switch to rosy boas for this example. Textbooks and breeders will likely say that a nice 55 deg cooldown is a necessary part of breeding. Yet, I produced nice big babies with hardly any cooldown at all, just allowing the natural light cycle via a window into the snake room.
I'm not saying I have found the answer. Rather, I'm confused. I'm confused why it works one way for some and another way for others. "Just because" is not a good enough reason. There is something we are missing. Probably we lack a real knowledge of what conditions are really like where snakes live and breed.
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RE: TC - markg, Fri Oct 28 14:22:41 2005