I see that my kings in the past are less likely to breed to un-bonded females. They amy even get eaten.usually what happens is you leave them together for several days until one or both calm down from being introduced as viable threats. Of the keeper keeps taking the male in and out of the cage because he is not sure whats happening.



So you can miss a females ovulation by going through all that. And trial and error on the keepers part because the snakes are scared of each other.



I like to keep the snakes I am going to breed to each other in large goups of 5 or 6. Sometimes I have 2-3 males in the unit as well.



When i have to take a high end male out of its colony and place it with a non bonded fmales. I go through all the streses that everyone else does. Then i see that females is not being receptive (even though she was just receptuive to a less desirable male that i wanted her to breed to) or i stay in the snake room with an eye on the pair to see if they latch on or one chases the other to try and eat.



basically with unrelated pairs i go through all the same stress as anyone else does. So do the snakes. I also would not feed them together.
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