Your females follicles size, her fat bodies size, her egg size when put together they tell you what happened and how to avoid it next time. If you send me a photo or description, I can help.

Your male, his stomach, intestines and liver says how he was performing.

We don’t recognise it, but young inexperienced males are bullied by gravid females, its not necessarily physical, my females stress out males simply with body language, this causes the males to feed less and soon perish in the high energy cages we use, this is why I separate and place males in cages NTL 72-75f DTH 78-80f with basking.

Gravid females are never allowed lower then 80f at any time, 84f is my preferred lowest temp.

Lately iv observed one of my more aggressive female bulling an other female in the same manner she did with the male, this could lead to nesting problems.

Also I now believe that males can be introduced to females once every spring, and females will multiclutch fertile eggs throughout the year, if properly supported.
The advantage of this equals in less stress on females and faster cycling.

This blue female laying her 3rd clutch has been mated once only, lets see how these eggs are?, I bet they will be fertile and so will her next clutch.

I am discovering so many new things about these lizards it’s captivating.

Ps. This is only my opinion and surly no advise to anyone, however I am expressing it so that you guys can ponder about it and draw your own opinions (will not discus it farther).

Making the rare morphs visually available before they are established can only kill your future marketing, we all know how difficult it is to sale our baby capra’s for any decent money, I feel this is not only because of cheep imports, but because of poor marketing.
Think about this, I sold a few nice colours capra like at $150ea and the last armata's at $250ea some of my up coming will fetch higher price.

Now before you make any judgement on me, remember that peoples cherish expensive pets and neglect cheep imports, its been this way for the 27 years iv been in the pet trade.
I can give you many example about this, ball pythons use to be the cheapest imported boides, it still is cheep, but breeders have turned them into $20,000 morphs, are these morphs any different then imports? Apart from being selectively bred for colors and captive produced it’s the same snake. The same can be applied to leopard geckos, letchianus, chameleons and many reptiles, why not those amazing dragons we keep? These extraordinary lizards that 90% herper’s have never seen.

Mark my words! This forum one day will be the hottest forum on king snake, I know why but till then I am keeping my cards.

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