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I had said I would get to this.

Last year I chose to use light to cycle my snakes, and it worked good.
By light I mean sunlight. My reptile house has east and south facing windows.
And the light pours in to it. We live north of Ottawa in Canada, and have pretty short days in the winter here.

By the end of September, early October are males were no longer given basking lights, and the females 4 hours a day only.
Heating the whole room to 80 degrees. Day highs of around 82 and drops to 77-78 night.
The females were a degree or two higher in the days and were feed till ovulation.
Here is the big key to light cycling how early in the season breeding starts. By mid December warming up should start
slowly after winter equinox. And males should be place in with the females prior to equinox(last years big mistake I was going to males
in 01 January. My first female caught me be surprise and ovulated on the 24 December and I put a male in right away but it was to late
she gave me all slugs.
From previous years all my girls ovulated on average over 30 days earlier this year.
And the males were more aggressive to breed than I have ever seen before.

Just a bit of info on this I saw, we will breed again this year
by light and see how it goes.

Mardy

What area are you from?
Thanks

Because this forum is rivalling the Ball forum lately, ha ha!

But I do have a question, and its totally not my intent to start arguing or anything. So here goes:

Breeding Carpets was basically worked out like a decade and a half ago. Its been done over and over and over with the same results. Its really a no-brainer and almost rivals Leopard Gecko breeding in its ease. So my question is, why bother experimenting? Unless of course its for curiousity's sake or science. That's a good reason. But the forumla is done. It was done 15 years ago. If you want eggs, follow the formula and you'll get eggs 100% of the time. Why bother trying new methods? Its not going to result in higher egg counts. Follicles are follicles are follicles. Light cycling isn't going to produce more of them.

Again, don't take offence. I was just curious. Its like these incubator discussions. It was DONE 20 years ago. Why are we having the same questions that were answer before I was born? Shouldn't we be progressing?
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It was done out of curiosity mostly. 2 years ago after moving and getting the reptile house. It seemed
like they were doing it on their own, But I went about breeding as normal for carpets.
So last year to test the theory I went with it to see what would happen. And well thats the story.
I will try one more year and document in detail before going back to normal breeding/cooling.

Most people could even do this as the windows, placing of the building, ect.
Plus now I know all that sunlight is affecting my cycling.

Mardy

Sounds great! These kind of things make herping fun eh? Trying to find out what makes them tick. Let us know the results man. Then we can further hypothesize what the %##@!! is going on.

Cheers,

Jeff F.

Mardy