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I woke up this morning and went to flip on the heat light for my adult pair of ball pythons...and they were mating!

They've been living together for the past month, month and a half now, and I haven't even tried to cycle them because it's been so hot in my house that I didn't need any heating at all. Only just this week was it dropping into the 70's at night.

This is my first time ever breeding my lady... I'm just ecstatic!

Just a normal and a normal, but still!

Haha, my non-herpy friends are going to think I have completely lost it.

~jenny
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1.1 normal ball pythons (Cindy and Darwin)
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
2.1 betta fishes (Vicious, Killer, and Butters)
3.1 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
2.0 horses (Buddy and Sam)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
2.25 chickens (Jacques the rooster and his harem)

but what I really want is more ball pythons!

LOL, congrats. And you may well loose it yet. The wait for the eggs, then the hatch is EXcruciating.

Quig
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Don't interupt me when I'm talkin' to myself

Boy is that right, Quig.
My first every ball python clutch is due to hatch in 10 days. The eggs (5) are starting to dimple, now. I thought it was a long wait for her to show ovulation, but this is excruciating!
(B-T-W, these are from an albino male to normal female - so 100% het albinos! Hoping for lots of girls!)
Kare
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Kare

"keep smiling; it makes people wonder what you're up to!"

Just a note that since you didn't cycle them they may not produce. If put together they will lock up but if they haven't been cycled the male may not be producing viable sperm or the female may not ovulate since conditions weren't met. They still could go it happens but without meeting their seasonary conditions it is a lower probability.
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Nita Hamilton
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Ball Pythons
ballpythonworld.com

I will actually be cycling them once temps start dropping in another month or so, I was just excited that not only was I a) right when I sexed the male (despite the previous owner's confidence that it was a girl) but b) there really IS a chance I might have babies next year!

It'll be interesting to see what goes on when I actually start cycling. And when/if my female actually lays eggs.

~jenny
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1.1 normal ball pythons (Cindy and Darwin)
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
2.1 betta fishes (Vicious, Killer, and Butters)
3.1 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
2.0 horses (Buddy and Sam)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
2.25 chickens (Jacques the rooster and his harem)

but what I really want is more ball pythons!

You actually did cycle them.

I guess I misunderstood the temps needed. I thought it was high 70's normally, low 70's to cycle, with daytime temps going from mid 80's at the cool end (normally) to low 80's/high 70's.

It's just been so hot up until the last couple weeks that I haven't had much choice in the temperatures.
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1.1 normal ball pythons (Cindy and Darwin)
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
2.1 betta fishes (Vicious, Killer, and Butters)
3.1 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
2.0 horses (Buddy and Sam)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
2.25 chickens (Jacques the rooster and his harem)

but what I really want is more ball pythons!

is often enough to get them to cycle. So a night drop from high to mid 70's might have been enough to cycle them and cause them to breed.
Just wait and see if she lays good eggs.