breeding red tail boas

[ladyfisch1]

I have a red tail boa which i got for nothing.Needless to say he was very sick.Thank god he is still alive. H had mouth rot and a respitory infection and did not eat in 9 months.Well he is now doing great ;D s9.gif I believe he is smaller though because of this. I was wanting to mate him with a female who is 3 yrs.but she is much larger.Is this a problem?Also i would like some informatiom on breeding.I do live in florida so the weather is always nice for him.. Anyway if anyone could help me i would appreciate it. thank you so much P.S. she is pretty tempermental where he is very easy going with everyone..

[AZ_Dragoon]

Size will not matter, at least in most cases, and if the female is cycled out the male will most likely do his job. I would usually drop the temp on my BC to about 78-80 to get 'em cycled, maybe even a few degrees cooler than that, but be careful about a respiratory infection developing if too cool. The temperment of your female should not matter. Its never been a problem in my breeding endeavors except for AZ Coral snakes (seems the females considered the males as prey if they were not cycled.)

Kevin