I have a 5 year old ball python who refuses to eat anything dead and is afraid of anything bigger than a mouse. Consequently he eats LOTS of mice. This is getting quite expensive so I decided to start breeding my own. I set up a ten gallon tank with food, water, two wooden houses, one male, and three females. One of the females was already pretty big when i got her and gave birth about a week after bringing them home. My problem is that the male now doesn't seem interested at all in the other two females. He avoids them, sleeps and plays on the other side of the cage from them, and will only eat and drink when they are sleeping. Is there anything I am doing wrong or something else I can do to encourage him to breed with the two females?

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• ? About encouraging mice to breed - assie2071, Mon Nov 27 21:55:56 2006
• RE: ? About encouraging mice to breed - tomorrow264, Mon Nov 27 22:26:11 2006
• RE: ? About encouraging mice to breed - assie2071, Mon Nov 27 22:49:04 2006
• RE: ? About encouraging mice to breed - Kingofspades, Tue Nov 28 00:09:48 2006
• RE: ? About encouraging mice to breed - toshamc, Tue Nov 28 00:36:04 2006