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Tail Flicking?

coleen Feb 24, 2006 07:12 PM

My little baby girl is now 6 years old. (20' & 200lbs)

Over the past few months she has begun to flick her tail over her body. It's just the last foot or so of her tail.

Is this being hungry and trying to entice food to approach, or is it maturing into a breeding adult?

I don't have any recent pics but I'll post some soon.

Thankx!

Replies (1)

tailswithscales Mar 02, 2006 07:07 PM

I have heard and seen that females do this for two reasons.
1) She is wanting to breeding as in awaiting male snakes to come for a visit.
2) There is a male in the cage and she doesn't like him and DOES NOT want to breed. lol
If you have a male large of enough breed stick him in with her and see what happens.
Good luck.
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