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I want to reverse cycle my snakes. So I will have a humidity and temperature controlled room that is set to be reverse what is happening naturally, so when it is summer my snakes will be in winter. (I was going to cycle them according to what is naturally happening in brazil annually, but you guys seem to cycle them with one winter and one summer quite successfully, because I hear places closer to the equator have two summers and two winters, no spring or fall, am I way off on this? and I thought it would be easiest for me to learn from you guys if I kept to temperate cycling) anyway I want to do this because I don't have enough room to produce enough babies to make a breeding business profitable for me. And I want to compensate for this partially by offering snakes when no one else is. But my problem is what about the babies? will the day in reverse cycle and change to regular hurt them? or what if I went away for the weekend? would a few days in reverse cycle then the sudden switch to a normal cycle hurt them, do I need to figure out a way to do this in steps?
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-Jasmine

1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
(Mercutio and Kajika)

Hey Jasmine,

You can cycle them any way you want, BUT, IMO you need to stick with it. Snakes don't do well with "jet lag" and you could mess up their reproductive cycles such that you never get any babies.

Actually not a bad idea to "move" the breeding cycle so you'd have babies at a diferent time, IMO best would be to have yours a few months ahead of everyone else. Late enough so most of the prior years are either sold or well picked over. You can achieve that but you'd have to control the room to make it cool earlier, warm earlier and simulate an earlier light cycle.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
24.36 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats