Breeding Brazilians

[BoidKeeper]

Thanks Yoda! Now for clearification question.

But I do start cycling on Dec. 1st. Sometimes Nov. 15th if I'm antsy.

How do you define cycling? I think what I call cooling you call cycling. When some people say cooling they mean brumation, not me.
Thanks,
Trevor

[Jeff_Favelle]

I call "cooling" the cooling of something like a colubrid, whereby the temps are dropped to 55F for 3 months, for example.

I call "cycling" the seasonal cycling of either humidity, photoperiod, or temperature (or all of them) of certain reptiles. I think there's a big distinction and I never use the term cooling for typical boid cycling because on more than one occasion, I've seen this lead to people "cooling" there boas or pythons for 3 months at 60F. After seeing a few of those incidents, I stopped calling it "cooling". I guess people thought that "cooling" meant "cooling", so that's what they did. Hard to blame them, but that doesn't really help the animals.

[BoidKeeper]

I stopped calling it "cooling".

And so am I. Cool colubrids and cycle boids.
So moving right along then.
When do you stop cycling them?
How low do you let the temps drop to at night while cycling?
Recape,
Start cycling Dec 1, pair Jan 1 or 7th or 14 etc.
How long after introduction before cortship starts? If it doesn't start in a certain amount of time should they be seperated and fed or something to try and get them going?
Thanks Jeff,
Trevor

[Jeff_Favelle]

When do you stop cycling them?

Usually around Feb. 1st. Depends on the weather. Play it by ear.

How low do you let the temps drop to at night while cycling?

70-74F

How long after introduction before cortship starts?

1 minute. 10 minutes. 2 days. Never. And everything in between.

If it doesn't start in a certain amount of time should they be seperated and fed or something to try and get them going?

Precisely the reason male combat is soooooo helpful. Not just Rainbows. All boas, and a great deal of pythons.

[BoidKeeper]

Good stuff Jeff thanks.
Did you find it easier when you had questions that were somewhat specific? I'm sure there are more questions I could have asked but these were the only examples of questions I could think of and the only ones I wasn't sure of the answers to.
Thanks,
Trevor

[Jeff_Favelle]

Do I find more specific questions easier than questions like "tell me everything about breeding snakes"?


Ummm....yeah. A LOT easier. You want your question answered, ask it. You want to know everything on a subject, buy a book.

[Darren179]

Hey jeff out of curiousity how long have you been breeding your brazilians you know them well. And oh I will also need to know everything there is to know about them summed up in a 1300 word essay do lets say ? Monday? haha thanks for the informative posts im sure that they answered a few different peoples questions

[SnakeManLew]

Originally posted by sssnakeyesss
Woa...i didnt think it was goin to get this ...stupid, sorry i asked the wrong question and i know you werent trying to be rude Jeff, im sorry. okay.

If there's one thing I learned about breeding BRB's.........don't listen to other folks! Do your own research and then "Just Do It", you know your snakes better than another person. If you stress over it you can forget about babies, follow the "guidelines" you discover from your research and go to it man. There are no hard fast rules in the reptile world, they'll do what they want to do, when they want to do it. All you can do is provide them with the place to do it in!