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I am going to try to breed my Thayeri next spring. What is a good temp range for the brumation? Is December to Feb 1st a good time period?

Thanks,

Beancounters

80* degrees is good.

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>>What is a good temp range for the brumation? Is December to Feb 1st a good time period?
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I feed them their last meal around 1 November, the Thanksgiving weekend I unplug the adult racks, about a week later I open the window to the room a couple inches and then check water weekly until Valentines day when everything gets plugged back in and I give them all a small meal a few days later. Then feed the heck out of everything (especially the girls) until march 15th (ish) when I start putting the pairs together. Thayeri seem to breed well early, this year I was about 3 weeks behind schedule and several still bred. My snake room averages 55 to 63 degrees but has gotten down to 49 and as high as 74 during the brumation; their is usualy one rack plugged in with babies that keeps the whole room from getting too cold at night. I live in Southern CA so you should modify your timing etc. for your area and temps. I bred AZ Mountian Kings for a few years with the same temps so don't think they need to be below 50. My Rosy Boas also bred with these temps.

Good Luck next year, the fun is when they hatch out.

Here's that female that is depicted in your lower right photo. This photo was taken last year, so she's bigger now. She has developed a great deal of greying between her bands and has a wild-type look to her. She'll be ready to breed next year, and I'm looking forward to it.

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Maria

Alaska Reptiles

"Life is like a box of thayeri eggs..."

I still think she is hot looking, that saddle color is great. It seems fairly common for females to get more graying as they mature. I lost her mom last year, I held one female back, wish I had kept another. She was a great breeder and larger than average size. The hold back is already as large as three of my adult females.
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Rick
Formerly “Never Enough Reptiles” but, I messed up and neglected to register the domain name or file as a business under that name. Since we are just small Hobbyists, I really didn’t think of protecting the name we have used for the last four years. Someone else is now Never Enough Reptiles LLC. And has a web site under that name. We did not move to Louisiana and we are no longer posting under that name.

Thanks Rick

That is exactly the info I was looking for.

Mike (Beancounters)

I have been successful with my Thayeri the last couple of years brumating them at around 60 degrees. I have a closet on the north side of the house I put them in, and that seems to keep them cool enough.
Ken