if that's what you like to do then so be it, but it isn't a sound husbandry practice. soooo many things could go wrong in a split second. let's seee, the male could get excited and rip his hemipenes out and ruin him for life as a breeder. The male could slowly make his way up to the female and BAAAMMM he strikes and throws a quick coil and breaks the females neck. he could strike and grab the females head and permanently damage her or kill her. after eating the rat when you aren't watching like a hawk, the female could catch movement (which is the males head) and she strikes it and coils it and kills him after all it smelled like a rat in the cage and the male was moving so it must have been a rat.

That female appears to be very healthy and waiting a day or two when they weren't locked up would have been a much smarter move to make. But then you wouldn't have had this spectacular picture to show off, RIGHT?
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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles

Various Ball Pythons:::

1.0 striped vanilla
1.0 spider
1.2 Citrus Ghost and hets
1.2 Albino and hets
2.3 het Pied
0.6 50% poss het pied
1.1 Pastel (male has additional gene going on with him)
a bunch of normal female breeders
a bunch of normal female holdbacks and several rescued normal males

0.1 columbian boa, she's a feeding monster, controls my
over production of rats, lol
0.1 brazilian rainbow boa, another rat eating monster
1.1 corns


a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrier as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!

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