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[mike h]

http://www.joecompelreptiles.com/ball_bits/female_breeding_behavior/index.asp

My het albino pair have locked a few times so far. I put them together a couple of days ago and they did not bother.
The female is often on the cool side which can be a good sign?
from above link::


For most of the year, ball pythons spend most of the daytime curled up in their hide boxes. During the middle and latter parts of breeding season I notice that my females thermoregulate more often. Females spend time on their hot spot and then move to cooler areas – even in the middle of the day; a time that that they usually spend hiding. Occasionally I find a female in her water bowl. Since this is usually an indicator that the snake has mites or that the enclosure is way too hot, I give this animal and her enclosure a good check up. If everything looks fine, then I chalk it up as her way of trying to thermoregulate and cool down. If it wasn’t breeding season, I would be concerned that something was wrong with the female in this case.
anyone else observing unusual behaviour

mike
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[DrAdam]

I havent cooled any of my snakes and they havent gone to any males yet but I have noticed them on the cool side of the tubs, they have gone off food and one is wrapped around its water bowl... The temps are fine though?
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[royalpython]

i wouldn't worry about it, your snakes will be healthy enough thermoregulating themselves. The snakes i'm not cycling are maintained at the same temperature throughout the year