Tips for Breeding Snakes?

[msgrim]

Hello fellow herp lovers!

I am msgrim, and I am new to the forum. I thought this would be a great community to openly discuss the topic of snakes with others who are also experienced owners.

I am going to start off this thread with a bang!

I have decided to finally breed ball pythons after years of owning reptiles. I decided to breed because I have several connections within the herp society, local pet stores, and fellow herp friends in my city that would like to buy the morphs I'm looking to breed.

I have two cinnamon females that have great pattern and color and are the correct size and age for breeding. I plan on breeding them with an amazingly colorful banana male, who is also the correct size and age for breeding.

If I do everything correctly, Ill end up with banana cinnamons! (That's the hope anyways)

I know that in order to initiate breeding, you must adjust the temperatures for several weeks before hand to cycle them. So let me ask, forum: How do you cycle your breeding snakes? For how long? What temperatures?

Any tips would be appreciated. Everyone needs to start somewhere, I just want to make sure to do it correctly.