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Heres my 2 1/2 female Abino Northern Pine. I'm planning on getting a male for her and breeding her, but it will be my first time. I've heard I can set them up in sterlite containers to save money and they will do fine. I would like to know:

1. How to heat a sterlite
2. What preperations I need to take to breed them
3. How do I incubate the eggs
4. What do I house the hatchlings in
5. I've also heard pine snakes like to build huge burrows to lay their eggs in. If so, what size set-up should she be in to do so.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as it's hard to find info on breeding them online.

Here's a few pic's of her. I actually have her on bed-a-beast now which she seems to like alot more than the aspen.

I thought albino northern pines had reddish patterning? Is it a patternless albino northern?

She's a beautiful snake, where'd you get her?

She does have red speckiling.

I got her from a local pet store. She is supposedly a descendant from the clutch of wild eggs that were found in New Jersey in the 80's.

Actually from what I have seen, Albino Southern Pines have a red pattern and Albino Northern Pines have red speckling. I could be wrong though.

Actually they can be both. It depends some on the lineage. If the albino comes from stock that has reddish toned parents, then that red could/would transfer to the albino as well. Albinos from bone white and black stock would have little to no red at all. Hope that helps. Take care.

Jeremy

Cool thanks. It's really hard to find alot of info on them.

A cage 3'x2'x1.5' is a good mating cage. I'd keep the adults singly, and then you can use slightly smaller cages outside of breeding season.

My formula for breeding Iowa bullsnakes, which has also worked on northern pine snakes:
1) Practice good husbandry with plenty of nutritious food.

2) Daily temperature cycle -- 82-85 F day, ~70 F night.

3) Winter brumation. Maintain normal temperature cycle for two weeks with no food, to clear the gut. Hold at ~70 F for two weeks. Then hold at 60 F for two weeks. Then drop to 45-55 F for three months. The snakes may be brumated either separately or together, as you like. Then raise the temperature to 70 F for a week before returning to the normal daily temperature cycle. Breeding generally starts about a month after coming out of brumation. Feed during that prebreeding period.

4) If at first you do not succeed, stay with the formula. You may not be successful till the second or even third breeding season.

My experience is that males need two brumations before they will breed.

This has worked for me. Others may do it differently, which only means that in our varying fashions we have provided all the stimuli the snakes need to breed.

Incubation: find a corn snake incubation sheet and follow it.

Paul Hollander

Thanks so mouch. I'm not planning on doing it for until next winter, but I need all the help I can get.