burm breeding

[riskofwater]

ok i know, i tried searching and found nothing.

im not familiar with breeding, im curious as to how breeding albinos with normal, albino with albino, etc, etc works... i have a albino male and have access to a normal and albino female a couple friends have. and help or helpfull links will be appreciated!

[DR_Sparktrician]

First there is a boy snake and a girl snake

You do need to be sure of the sexes because males will fight, have them probed if you never have before.

Most of the folks here really like gentics wizard:
http://www.geneticswizard.com/f_start_ge...wizard.asp

Here is some other reading that will help you to understand what is really going on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punnett_square

None of these are for sure. The traits that you are talking about are simple recessive and any attempt at saying what the outcome will be is nothing more than an excercise in statistics.

[Globe Reptiles]

I have another question that might fit in here... I know pretty much all about genetics there is to know for breeding morphs. The last time I've bred Burms was about 4 years ago and I didn't really do much except for putting an adult male in the cage of an adult female... that was about it. They were mating, she got gravid and layed eggs that I incubated.
This time I'd like to make sure everything happens exactly like I want it to. Thus I'd like to know how you make sure that the male wants to mate with the female and that the female is ready for the male. I mean there must be something like menorrhea in snake females, right? How can I tell when the right time has come for the Female? I belive it has something to do with the temperatures in the cages. I don't really know how this is going to work. Of course I can drop the temps inside the cage but that would be leading to the snakes laying on the heatmats only and maintaining their temperatures anyway. I can't lower the temps in the entire cage because I believe that that would make them feel uncomfortable... i know that the humidity needs to be slightly higher in breeding season, that's no problem, but for the rest i have no clue yet - so please tell me how you do it! Any help would be appreciated... Thanks and best whishes, Moe

[bebo]

Well, it hardly ever happens like you WANT it to,lmao. They do it if and whenthey want to. All you can do is try and set things up to hopefully have it happen.

[Globe Reptiles]

Thanks, bebo
I almost expected that answer.... so how do you keep your tems during the different seasons, or are you not changing them?

[bebo]

Pretty much a consistent setting most of tthe year. Though as the outside temps change the building/room temps will change to some degree. But for me around November I start adjusting temps over a period of time manually.

[Globe Reptiles]

And to what temps do you adjust them? Also I'm not sure about the nighttime drop. Some people say that they keep their day-temps quite the same thoughout the year, but to introduce the breeding season they will drop the night-temps about 5°F lower than usual and start misting in the morning and the evening. What do you think about that? As i said before, I have a male green burmese that for some reason doesn't want to breed... he's in good shape, has a good size and age, a sexy girlfriend... I mean what is he thinking?

[bebo]

I drop a dregree a week over a period of time. Either til I get breeding activity/interest or a minimum of 80 degrees nighttime temp. They will also sense pressure changes as the season changes.

As far as your male, it could just be him. Either not an agressive type, or not quite mature as hoped.

[Globe Reptiles]

I see, thank you very much! That helps... so basically it's almost as breeding retics, just not as complex. The male is already 5 years old and about 9-10ft long.