blood is fairly common during shedding and I would not consider that to be a sign of breeding. On a side note, why are you getting stressed that he isn't breeding yet? I know alot of really big breeders haven't even started cooling yet much less even think about introducing animals. We won't even start to lower night time temps until maybe mid-december and start introducing jan 1. Almost all of our females are pounding rats as I feel they are trying to get as big as possible now and they usually start to go off-feed around mid-november. Hope this helps.
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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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• Updates on non breeding spider male. - python2000, Mon Oct 29 17:00:08 2007
• RE: Updates on non breeding spider male. - joshhutto, Mon Oct 29 18:18:53 2007
• RE: Updates on non breeding spider male. - jyohe, Mon Oct 29 18:42:11 2007
• RE: Updates on non breeding spider male. - Bighaze, Mon Oct 29 22:49:14 2007
• blood?? from sheding??? - chonjoepython, Mon Oct 29 23:25:08 2007
• RE: blood?? from sheding??? - mistysprouse, Mon Oct 29 23:39:33 2007
• strange... thanx np - chonjoepython, Tue Oct 30 00:04:55 2007
• RE: blood?? from sheding??? - JenHarrison, Tue Oct 30 01:20:21 2007
• RE: Updates on non breeding spider male. - regalevolutions, Fri Nov 16 12:43:08 2007