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I am an experienced breeder in mainly burmese,short tailed and blood pythons. I have an opportunity to breed a couple pair of Childrens pythons that I received through a trade. Are these difficult to breed? Any tricks to them outside "typical" pythons? Cooling period, feeding cycles, temps, humidity, incubation, etc... Any help or opinions would be very helpful. Thanks in advance. Rich

Rich, cycle em' w/your Burms and your golden!

Thanks Buzzard. Just like to know what I'm getting into here!

They are hardy and uncomplicated for the most part. The only difference is that females can't warm up their bodies to incubate eggs like the big pythons can. If you choose maternal incubation, I would use a large nest box with a range of temps for her to choose from. Babies do better when kept more humid than you would think a "desert" species would require. Aside from that... standard python care.