Jeff I bred a female younger then 2 years old, she had 13 babies, no slugs, but her weight was not properly taken into consideration, she almost died from it. I now go with your recommendations regarding proper body weight be some what more critical then most people think. The female I have now looks to be much heavier, she is over 3.5 pounds already, by breeding time she should be a good and solid and ready to go....





>>Sean,

>>....I am not sure what the smallest size is for a breeding male. I think I have had them father litters when they were as small as two pounds. Your female is just large enough to reproduce. You can probably grow her a couple inches and put another half pound on her over the next few months to have her safer to breed and able to produce a larger litter. The male should be real easy to grow larger over a few months. I have found that age is as important as size. I have never had any BRB lay babies at age two years. I have only heard of one breeder doing it. Mine often produce first litters around their third birthday but some not until a year older.

>>....They do try to crawl away when you want them to pose for PICs. I take most of my pics of them in containers. I leave the lid on the container until I am ready to shoot and then uncover and shoot before they start crawling.

>>....I would describe your female as a typical BRB and your male as a high orange one. Crescent size, color and shape can be all over the place. Some have no crescents and some have crescents so large that they are spots rather than crescents. Crescents can be white or yellow or orange. We try to selectively breed for crescent characteristics and can be successful but they seem to be just normal variations.

>>Jeff

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>>>>Heya guys I just thought I'd ask a few questions and show recent pic's. Luckily my dad was willing to help me get some recent pics by holding the BRB's while I took pictures.

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>>>>By the way, anyone have some good tricks/techniques to get snakes to pose/coil on a surface for pictures? Because every time I try they just want to crawl arround. I know someone mentioned putting a bowl over them and leaving them for a few minutes but how do you get them to let you put them under/in a bowl? I have dificulty convincing mine to stay put and let go of me long enough to get the lid on the 3x2 feeding containers I use.

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>>>>Is there a minimum weight/size for a male BRB to successfully breed? I can't remember ever hearing a min size for the males but wasn't sure. My male is currently 1 pound 13 ounces. My female is currently 3 pounds 6 ounces.

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>>>>Secondly I was curious how people would describe the male as he is much closer to my preffered appearance on BRB's. Particularly the contrast between saddle and background color in addition to overall bright colors.

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>>>>Anyways here is a few pics of the male "Navel"

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>>>>Head shot

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>>>>Picture in sunlight (closest to true color)

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>>>>Picture in shadow

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>>>>And here's a few of my female "Brunhilde"

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>>>>Head shot

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>>>>Picture in the sunlight

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>>>>Picture in the shade (closest to true coloration)

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>>>>Also I was curious if eclipse phase is a selectively bred for trait or a reccessive inherited trait? I assume it is selectively bred for but thats just a guess.

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>>>>Mostly I ask out of curiosity of how much crescent size/presence variance there is within normal population. Especially since my male has very prominent crescents but my female for the most part has 1/2 to 1 scale thick crescents where she has any at all.

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>>>>Sorry for the picture size, I didn't realize how large they would end up until I was posting this. Does anyone have a recomendation on pixel size to use for posted images?

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>>>>Thanks again,

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>>>>Sean.
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Frank Roberts

Roberts' Realm Of Reptile Research

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