Do you keep them together when you warm them up?How about breeding time,just leave them paired up?



Yes keep them together after they warm up. That is the whole point so that the makle is there with her when the eggs are ready to be fertilized. Then feed them (espcially the female) as much as she will eat during this time. Leave them together until you are sure the female is gravid. Usually what happens is the female will ovulate and that makes here appear gravid. DO NOT REMOVE THE MAL YET because some people mistake ovulation as the eggs being fertilized. After you see she is getting bigger (it take 30 days for her to lay)remove the male. If you are not sure, you can wait until the female goes into pre-shed (in the blue) before removing the male. But you need to feed the female as much as she will take during this time. Some female go off food a 3-4 weeks before laying, some don't. She will lay in few days after she sheds.





After she lays feed the female right away. i usually throw in 5-6 mice the day after the female lays. remove whatever she does not eat. After she finishes her meal, reintroduce the male in her encloser. She will second clutch for you.



It is important you feed the female a day or two after she lays. that meal should be as much as she will take. This will cause her to ovulate and proiduce follicles. The bigger and healthier you keep the female during this whole proicess , the better chance you have of gettinga second clutch. the male stays in with her as before and remove when she is gravid. You don't want the male in the females encloser while she is laying because it may disturb her nesting process (look up threads on proper way to get a female to nest)or the male will eat the eggs she lays.
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