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teaspoon Nov 24, 2008 03:36 PM

I know that there's a lot of different versions of how people cycle their ball pythons. This will be my first year breeding Amazon tree boas, so I'd really like to be able to keep them all at the same season in the same room.
For ATBs the temps need to get up to low/mid 80s in day and high humidity in warm season. For cool season (4-6 weeks long) temps go up to high 70s in the day, and its the dry season. After I start to warm it back up, I put the pair together and raise humidity, separate to feed.
I've got tree boas understood pretty well, I was planning on starting to cool them in a week. Can I use the same schedule and temps for BPs? How should humidity be during all of this for BPs? Do I pair them up during cooling or after it starts to warm up or both?
Another question, I've asked this one befor but I'm not quite sure. Males can breed at 600 grams? I've got a little pastel male thats about 26/27 inches long and nice and thick and healthy. Any guesses as to his weight? I don't have a scale(but it's on the X-mas list) and I really don't have any clue as to how many grams he is so if you've got (or had) a BP that size, please tell how much it weighs/weighed. Thanks so much and Happy Thanksgiving!
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4.4 Ball Pythons 1.1 Amazon Tree Boas 2.0 Corn Snake 1.2 Black Rat Snakes 1.0 Dumeril's Boa 2.1.9 Bearded Dragons 2.1.6 Crested Geckos 1.1.4 Eastern Box Turtles 0.3 Chickens 2.1 Cats 1.1 Ferrets plus lots of mice and feeder insects and my Sweety-bird Sydney

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mugencrx Nov 24, 2008 04:33 PM

males can start to breed at 300 grams if they are producing sperm plugs, and the rule of thumb for females is 1200 grams but there has been success with females under this weight. Good luck!

ssnakes Nov 24, 2008 07:33 PM

Is there a bathroom scale in your house? You can make an educated guess with that scale. Hold the snake and weigh yourself, then weigh yourself without the snake. Estimate
knowing that one pound equals about 454 grams.

Susan
SSNAKES Reptiles

teaspoon Nov 25, 2008 05:45 PM

that's a great idea but... My bathroom scale is so far off that I don't even know how much I weigh. I could step on it one minute and be 5 pounds heavier the next minute, when really I'm ten pounds lighter than it says(or at least I'm pretty sure I am)
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"Such as I am, so shall I be"

My menagerie
4.4 Ball Pythons 1.1 Amazon Tree Boas 2.0 Corn Snake 1.2 Black Rat Snakes 1.0 Dumeril's Boa 2.1.9 Bearded Dragons 2.1.6 Crested Geckos 1.1.4 Eastern Box Turtles 0.3 Chickens 2.1 Cats 1.1 Ferrets plus lots of mice and feeder insects and my Sweety-bird Sydney

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