When I find myself dreaming of future parings, I always consider 3 years old the minimum age, that I would consider trying to breed a female. I have never tried to breed a female at 2, but the two year olds that I have had and fed regularly without "power feeding" or aggresive feeding schedules just did not seem mature enough. I have heard people say at least 3 years old, at least 6ft long, and at least 10lbs for a female.

As far as males go, I consider 2 yr olds to be pretty much a sure thing and 1 year olds(18 months) to be a gamble. This might be more of a conservative approach than some of the other people here. I tried putting an 18 month old male het for sunglow in with a 6.5ft plus 4 year old female albino and he hid underneath the aspen bedding like a little girl! It scared me to death because when I first opened up the cage to check on them and did not see the male, my first thought was that the female ate him!

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