I can only speak from Hogg Island Boa breeding, my trio bred for me all 6 times I put them togather. Basically, I left the trio togather all year round, and they would start mating in December, every year like clockwork. Babies would be born in July. When the females were gravid, there was no doubt, they looked like 2 liter Coke bottles instead of 20 Oz Coke bottles
They of course were seperated when fed, and fed small meals when they wanted them, a few wasted rats, but not many. My male actually ate less during the breeding season than the females. One year the females just did not fatten up enough to breed, so I kept the male seperate that one year, and boy was he bummed, you could actually see him sulking The Hoggs have two color phases, one dark one light. They maintained the dark phase pretty much all through breeding season once gravid. When they darkened up, and stayed that way, it was a good sign. And yes, they do keep more on the hot side when gravid.

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