While I have NO experience in colder climates I have LOTS of it in Florida. I bred my first Cyclura in the middle 1970's and have bred 4 species successfully. I KEEP MY BREEDING PAIRS TOGETHER ALL YEAR. I have had on 3 occasions early in my breeding career found that introducing females to breed sometimes ends in severe injury or death to the female. My lizards reproduce annually and I think leaving them together is crucial as these compatible lizards like each other and do NOT want to be apart. It is a HUGE mistake to mix and match during times when spermatogenesis is happening in the males. I believe you are in Florida and keep your lizards outside thru personal p.m.'s from you. DO NOT SEPERATE THESE LIZARDS AND YOUR SUCCESS WILL BE WONDERFUL AS LONG AS EVERYTHING ELSE IS CORRECT. In nature these animals live in colonies and the same male breeds the same females every year unless a bigger male makes him move. Courtship occurs on a year round basis and I think some pair bonding may occur similar to birds. I know of one male and a few females that I watched east of Gonaieve in the Artibiniti for several years all still living in the same side of the mountain for several years and for all I know still there....
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Tom Crutchfield
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