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How do you introduce your breeding pairs ?

Do you cool them down ?

How early? I have heard it all from research, reading, and questioning. The most recent but older method I heard was cooling them down together. from Dec-Feb and leaving them together only separating to feed.
 
I introduce males to the females' enclosure. I did not cool them this year, though I had a 3 day power outage in October where I was only able to keep my snake room at 78-80 degrees with no supplemental heat. I started pairing in late October. The length of time I'll keep males in with females depends on what actually goes on while they are together. For the most part, my males have locked within hours of introduction, but on a few separate instances, they were in with a female for 6+ days before locking. I then remove the male once I see that they are no longer locked, wait a few days, offer food, and repeat.
 
Cool I recently picked up a Normal female and given the breeder I got her from
just put her in with a Mojave male. I wanted to try something different so what I'm
Hoping to do is maintain a temp of 82 degrees it being around 88 on the warmer side I'm
Trying to just keep it right at the normal radiant temp of 85 and just leave them
No heating no cooling.

I have read so much info Im really just trying to
Observe the animals. The are currently coiled on the warmer side but no confirmed lock up I'm giving them 2 more days together.
 
last season I did not do a cool down and all but 2 or 3 of my females I bred went. I am looking into that again this year with my temps
 
You could get a 100 different answers and all of them could be correct.

When it comes to cooling, I don't set my herpstat up for night drop or change the set point. With that being said, my snake room itself is not maintained at 80 degrees or anything like that. The winter brings a natural temp drop on the cooler side of the enclosure. The snakes tend to crawl around and find what is right.

The best thing to do is find a breeder you trust and try and use their system your first year. Then over time you can change it and make your own system.
 
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BrooklynJoe said:
The most recent but older method I heard was cooling them down together. from Dec-Feb and leaving them together only separating to feed.
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It's hard enough to keep males on feed during the season, I would never recommend keeping them together for 3 months, especially young smaller males.
 
I couldn't agree more with all that has been said I hate the trouble feeders as well, so thats why once you get them going on feed you can't let their appetite drop, I have a snake who is a slow grower an addition to being way under weight. she is only 400 grams and was born in 2010 I have her on 6 mice a week and she puts no weight on.

I'm no expert but I try to just let the animals do their own thing and just try different things out.
 
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