Posted by:
Elaphefan
at Sun May 15 12:10:07 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Elaphefan ]
I have seen blood before durring mating. In the case of the female that I had, I was young (14 at the time) and I had four WC Black Rats. Well, back then, we didn't know how to tell the sexes apart, and we let the female breed to often in that case. In the end, all the males and the female were just fine.
I agree with Mike that you might want to change the bedding. You might try putting the two snakes together for only one mating, and then wait a few days before they get a chance to breed again. In the wild the male seeks out the female, they breed once, and they both go off not to cross paths again. They don't stay together to keep mating. Rat snake hemipenes have barbs that help to keep them coupled while the mating takes place. Those barbs could very well be causing the bleeding.
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