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Striker
01-06-2005, 07:49 AM
Hi, here all the facts about my female. I give you this to know what you would do with this.

My female stop eating since 9 of november. Then I put my male in the vivarium of my female the 10 of december to try to breed them. They stay together until the 20 of december. Then I tried to make her eat but she refuse it. My male him, he took it. The 25 of december, I put back my male with my female. And separate them the 1st of January. Her she eats 5 rats the first of January and him 2 rats.

My male is 2 years old and 8 months. And her she's 6 years old.
Do you think he's too young to reproduce himself? Because during all this time, they didn't do nothing but be one over the other one.

Should I forget all this and continue to make them eat and not try again to breed them? Or try another time? If you think I should try again, can you say to me what to do and when please about the meals and everything?

Thank you very much. :'(

CCS
01-06-2005, 05:45 PM
Your male is plenty old enough to breed. In my experience, older males breed more readily, but one that age will generally do fine.
There should be no problem with the amount of time your female did not eat, in fact I do not feed either the male or female for about a month before putting them together. One trick I have learned is if the male is not interested in the first couple of days, pull him out and feed the female one large rat, then reintroduce him the next day, this has worked for me this year.
Another possible problem you are having is their meal sizes. I would never feed a boa more than two large rats at a feeding, I believe feeding five large rats at a sitting is asking for trouble. Snakes have very slow metabolisms and do not lose weight quickly, therefore have no need for meals of that size. I feed my males a maximum of one large rat a month.

Hope you find this helpful,

Chris Canada-Smith