Need Help With Breeding Carpet Pythons

[sheffiec]

Once I receive a message I will tell you my scoop.

[ozzy]

Cant give you a good reply unless you give more info

[sheffiec]

Well, here it is, I ahve a 4 year old female and 10 month old male. Is the male too young?

[sheffiec]

Also the male strike at Medusa when we put them in the new tank? Also Medusa will not eat right now. She has been in a room for about a week an a half with temps at 79-82 gradient, since the male escaped a couple fo weeks ago. So she might be in stress. Another thing Medusa was doing some stance where she crawled over Mortecai (male) and held her head and a foot of ehr body up high for about 5 minutes. She is also glazed in her eye right now. I just want to know from these predictions if they are going to mate or if Mortecai is still too young.

[sheffiec]

Mortecai was found last tuesday and they were in there together when she was doing that weird stance with her head up. Right now she is sleeping with him in the new tank shortly after he striked at her. She hasn't eaten in three weeks but we fed Mortecai Saturday. Are any sings of Medusa wanting to mate, I can't tell right now if she is already amted and is producing eggs.

[Stockwell]

It's unlikely that a 10 month old Python would be sexually mature.
The breeding season is also pretty much over for this season.
There's a chance he might be mature for next season

[Tim_Cranwill]

If you put ALL the info you can think of in nice, coherent sentences, I guarantee you'll get a good response. I can't be bothered to make heads or tails of what you've cryptically described in your 4 posts here.

Take it nice and slow and put your thoughts in order… :)

[sheffiec]

Cool! Thanks, I wasn't even sure if I was ready for this, I just bought a house so it is a bit hectic. Now when they do mate, should I take the amle out or just leave them there and take eggs out when the time comes?

[sheffiec]

Oh! Well, I amke sure to do that next time.

[Jeff_Favelle]

I also highly doubt that people are going to give you advice so that you can breed your male Jungle to your female Coastal. Its generally frowned upon.

[sheffiec]

I know, but if you want to know how I feel about cross breeding, then go to breeing forum and look for crossbreeding and I type based on facts how I feel about cross breeding, and it seems there are others that agree with me. But like I said in there, it would be like you trying to convince me to like your color better than mine, that would be an argument that would never end.

[munchy]

not trying to be a jerk, but why would you try to breed your snakes before researching the process?

[ssscales]

Hi guys, I have 2.2 JCP's. Both females are about 5FT, males are about 4-1/2. I've bred Boas before and thought I'd try my hand at Pythons. My Bloods are too young for this season, these can wait for another year or better yet two years.

Question?
Is breeding Pythons the same principle as Boas? Stop feeding end of September, add the male for the cooling period with gradual increase in temp Nov-Jan, etc?

[Jeff_Favelle]

Question?
Is breeding Pythons the same principle as Boas? Stop feeding end of September, add the male for the cooling period with gradual increase in temp Nov-Jan, etc?


Stop feeding the end of September? Who stops feeding? Certainly not I nor anyone that I know.

[JDouglas]

I stopped feeding my IJCP on Halloween. Yasser and VPI also stop feeding during the breeding season. Check out this post from the VPI Mail Bag...


Dear BB,

Indeed, We keep our breeding Irians and jungles all in the same room on the same racks and do exactly the same for each. They’re mostly in Vision Cages (3’ x 2’) and the largest Rubbermaid storage boxes. They each have a flexwatt basking spot that’s been on 24 hours a day through the summer, but now will be on through December for half a day. In January it will be turned off, Feb and March back on for half a day. The day light is now reduced to 10 hours of light and 14 dark, and that will be further shortened to 9/15 in December and January, then gradually increased through the spring. We’ve been feeding the heck out of them and they are fat (this year maybe too fat, we’ll see). We’ll feed the females this first week of December but not most of the males. Then no more food until mid-February. We breed one male to one female. We do not combat males. We introduce the male and female weekly from mid-December through February and into March, leaving them together for two or three days, then separating them. We tend to see two periods of copulations, at the beginning of the introductions, and then again at the end of the introductions, in Late December and then again in mid-February or so. We don’t really cool them, but it’s a little cooler in the building despite anything we might do to equalize the temperatures. Nights are usually high 70s, days low 80s, but occasional cold spells may drop building temperatures 10 degrees for a day or two, three or four times per winter.

In other words, we pretty much do for carpets what we’ve do for just about every species of python and boas with which we work.

Dave Barker


I tried to follow these instructions last year. The only thing I did differently was start and end a month earlier. Jeff has proven that it doesn't hurt to keep feeding and I think I will keep feeding this year to help maintain the females weight.

Thanks,

Jaremy

[Dom]

I never stop feeding the females but they stop ussually when gravid.. as for males.. they have alwasy stopped on their own and started eating in late april again.... Just my observatiosn...


Sheffiec.. To me your to snakes seem highly stressed out. Little word of advice.. seperate them ..

[ssscales]

I usually stop feeding my boas end of Sept or end of October depending on the weather. I live in FL. it could be 60F-88F any given day in fall or winter, keeping them cool is the tricky part here. I just want to know if Pythons are the same? I currently feed females once a week, once every 2 weeks for males. All of my JCP's are adults and over 5FT.