I didn't want to breed her this year is what I should have stated. Every time I have tried I was lucky enough to be successful and it was always in the same time period. I know snakes can react to changes occurring outside, but no matter what the weather my temps stay the same inside (unless power failure). They do know when its raining regardless of being inside however. I believe once I have her on a temp cycle I would have to change it to make her breed at another time of year kinda thing, but I didn't change anything and even though I didn't want to breed them this year they went off feed as if I had and resumed feeding the same month when I did breed them. So therefore I believe their fertility period has passed. Plus my 17 foot tiger male gets high strong during the breeding season and has calmed back down again. He literally bangs his body against enclosure all night from Sept thru Nov and calms his butt down in beginning of January. I do not believe in breeding my snakes yearly, I give them a year off. I'm a hobbyist not a professional breeder, when all my pythons are mature I will then take things further in a small business manner with a friend. I got my first retic in the 80's when not many people where keeping them due to their reputations, which is what attracted me to them in the first place, I was an odd lad lol. My first successful breeding was in 1995 with two imported retic's one 14 years old and one 25 years old, both now deceased. but our bloodline lives on, the original female laid 96 eggs, very small and so where the babies but they grew into giants.
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Frank Roberts

Roberts' Realm Of Reptile Research

R&R Herpetological

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