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Should I refrain from breeding?

Stygian Faerie

Stygian Faerie

Raaaawr!
I gave my snakes a break last year and I've been bouncing up and down waiting for breeding time to come this year.
My planned hook up are ready to go - my female just shed a couple days ago and my males are all going loopy! But whilst I was thinking about exactly where I'm going to place the incubator this year I realised that it might not be a good idea to breed them at all.
I live with my mum and my little brother moved back home with his girlfriend just over a year ago. Because of this my mum decided to stop paying for electricity monthly and go onto a meter with pre-paid cards which stops nasty surprises on the bill from when my brother leaves all his crap on when he's out. So when you're out of money everything cuts out then you can go onto emergency for a short while to get to the shops and top up your card.
I'm worried that the electricity could cut out while I'm at work and can't do anything about it. My brother doesn't work so sits home all day playing computer games with two tvs and whatever else he has on all day and has been known to just sit in a dark powerless home for 6 hours waiting on someone coming in to tell them the meter ran out of money and that we went onto the emergency the day before when he was the only one in and he forgot to let us know...
So common sense is telling me that even though I'm gutted at the thought, I probably shouldn't risk breeding them.
Also, I can't afford to constantly put money in the meter just for him to use it all up :(
What do you guys think?
Maybe I could threaten him with dead mice in his pillow or something...
 
My main question is, if there were a power cut, what are the chances of it not killing the eggs? I have a reptile incubator (can't remember the name of it off the top of my head but I'll find out when I get home) I keep the eggs in sphagnum moss and the house stays at about 25 degrees c. Would the incubator retain heat?
 
Someone did an experiment on another forum where some eggs were incubated at room temp, which in the US is typically around 73*F, for different lengths of time. The egg cooled the longest hatched after 117 days, healthy, but with color and pattern abnormalities as did some of the other long-cooled hatchlings.
 
So 73*F is about 22*C according to google. That's reassuring, I was really scared of the eggs being killed if the incubator cut off. Thank you for the info :)
 
A bigger concern would be temp spikes, where your temps shoot up or down...Yours would be a more gradually rise and drop in temperature, being that they are in an incubator. I'd hazard a guess and say you'll be fine; it will replicate a cool summer day :)
 
Thanks for the input! I thought that it would be alright but I really wanted to ask the community before I did anything else. I've only bred twice before and feel a whole lot better asking all you lovely, more experienced people :)
 
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