cooling boids - more than 1 way ???

[MouseKilla]

Stuff like what, Jeff?

Do you mean all the seemingly contradictory information out there on breeding (not to mention that 98% of it is out of date and usually plagiarized from stuff that is even MORE out of date!) OR do you just mean dumb questions keep you up late at night? lol!

Once you have enough of your own first hand breeding experience the question of which recipe is right becomes irrelevant, by then you know what works for you and that's all that matters. But, when you are breeding a new species for the first time the instructions are so inconsistent that they all become useless, they can't all be right so they might as well all be wrong.

Does anyone really know what they are talking about or are we dealing in anecdotal evidence only here?

[crocdoc]

Originally posted by hhw
Forgive me if I'm misinformed, as I'm not sure if this pertains to ball pythons or other boids as well, but equatorial climates have wet/dry seasons rather than spring/summer/fall/winter. I'm not sure about Africa, but I'm guessing that like Southeast Asia there's a wet season from November to February. Despite longer days, the temperatures are still cooler during this period than at other times of the year.

You are correct in that there is a wet/dry season near the equator, rather than summer winter, but incorrect in assuming that the wet season is the cool time of year in which snakes would be brumating. Some southern hemisphere reptiles do nest during the dry season (freshwater crocodiles in Australia spring to mind) but most do their breeding in the wet season, when it is hot and humid. If any have a period of rest, it is aestivation during the dry season.

Getting back to the original post I was referring to, in which carpet pythons and womas were mentioned, most of these would experience summer/winter in the wild rather than wet/dry tropics, anyway. Womas are found mostly in desert areas and carpet pythons range quite far south in Australia.

[Jeff_Favelle]

hhw, in the dry season, with no cloud cover, there is no way of holding what geologists call "K-up". To explain, "K-down" is the sun's rays. K-up is the heat (longwave radiation) that the earth gives back to the atmosphere during the night when the sun is not there. Ever notice that on a clear night. its WAAAYYY colder than if it was muggy and cloudy (somewhat of a greenhouse effect)?

So, in Africa, during the dry season, there is no clouds and the night time gets downright COLD. Much like Nevada and Arizona in the US. Ever been to Vegas in the winter? Night time can be well below 0 degrees, yet daytime is like 30 Celsius.

[Jeff_Favelle]

BOTH Killa! Ha ha! No, not the questions that people ask. The questions I ask myself and the things I contemplate. LOL! I'm a night owl. Its crazy.

[Jeff_Favelle]

but incorrect in assuming that the wet season is the cool time of year in which snakes would be brumating.

TOTALLY correct. Ever wonder why ALL the books say to lightly mist during the spring warm up (breeding season) for most boids?

Now you know.