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is there a trick to get them breeding? cant seem get them started. any hints would be helpful.

I have bred them just by putting them in the cage together during the fall cool down. I keep them at room temp (78-80) with a small halogen light that puts off a little heat but not much. I keep them in arboreal Neos with perches wrapped in plastic plants. I also have a misting ststem that mists twice a day for 1 minute.
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The trick I use when breeding Trimersurus ssp, is when the male goe's off feed during the early winter months, I introduce "her" (the female), to his cage and and usually he will breed her within several hours. Leave her in "his" cage for a few days and then remove her back to her cage. Feed her heavily and within a few months, you should have babies. Works for me anyway. Tim Cole's temp seem to be okay, but I don't cool mine down.
Randal Berry

I used (no longer have any Trims) similar techniques - something of a combo, I guess. I did a wet/dry season thing, with the wet being the cool season, that lasted about 2 months. Warm/dry temp range was on the order of 85/78F (D/N), while cool/wet temp range was on the order of 78/72F (D/N). I had them in a closet and just heated the closet.

I had a recirculating water system using arboreal Neodeshas draining through a biofilter into one reservoir. A canister filter (with diatomaceous earth) on a timer sucked filtered water from the first reservoir and spit it into a second reservoir, which had a simple sump pump in the bottom of it to push "rainwater" up to the top of the Neodeshas, and out a sprinkler head (those green ring jobbies for the lawn). Sump pumps have a simple binary function - turn on when the water gets so deep, then turn off. I think I had the timer on the canister filter set to run about an hour, 4 times a day. Lots of rain. The rainwater drained back to the canister filter, after passing through the biofilter (to catch the big stuff). I changed the water about once a week, and spot-scooped the enclosure. Never sweated hardcore disinfection, these were F2 cbb's.

It worked for me (T. borneensis - I made F3's). Maybe harder/more elaborate than it had to be, but I liked the plumbing challenge and the noise of the rain. I got the idea from an article on culturing B. lateralis. Anyway, the water pouring on them really got them crawling around and checking stuff out (usually pretty sedate snakes, except at feeding time, jeez-oh!).

Oh, I also introduced the male into the females' cage. They kept feeding right through the cool season, I just gave lighter meals (the females are beasts and can really power the food at a sitting). They always had access to a basking lamp, and used it.

Cheers,
Jimi

Thanks for all the info sorry about my butchered spelling. That was a very tiring day. full time job and 16 hours of school gets a little tiring after a while. again thanks you all but sad thing is the night I asked the question I went to the hot room and they were copulating, very excited about that.