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I just intoduced my 2 year old corns together last month exactly. I placed them together for 4 hours at a time every 4 days 3 consecutive times. Now neither are eating and are both seperate. They both were in brumation since late november and am now slowly raising temps. The female seems to have a mid body swell even though she has not eaten for 1 mnth. Could i have been succesful? Now what? any info would be great

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and many of my females are too. Some of my females are very gravid, some are not (yet). They often feed very well until the eggs take up too much room, but sometimes they go off feed even before breeding. There are too many variables to give a really good answer, especially without seeing your snakes.

You can try to check for ovulation / eggs by letting a relaxed female crawl over your fingers on which you have placed a smooth cloth so she can slide across easily (I describe it in my book, if you have it available). You can actually count the "bumps" as she goes over your fingers. But without practice, it can be difficult to tell the small, hard bumps of ovulation from the bigger, softer bumps of eggs.

My best advice without seeing them is to keep trying to feed once per week (fasting snakes during the breeding season will often break the fast now and then for a meal) and to re-introduce them to each other once or twice per week until it is obvious that she is gravid.

Good luck!

>>and many of my females are too. Some of my females are very gravid, some are not (yet). They often feed very well until the eggs take up too much room, but sometimes they go off feed even before breeding. There are too many variables to give a really good answer, especially without seeing your snakes.
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>>You can try to check for ovulation / eggs by letting a relaxed female crawl over your fingers on which you have placed a smooth cloth so she can slide across easily (I describe it in my book, if you have it available). You can actually count the "bumps" as she goes over your fingers. But without practice, it can be difficult to tell the small, hard bumps of ovulation from the bigger, softer bumps of eggs.
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>>My best advice without seeing them is to keep trying to feed once per week (fasting snakes during the breeding season will often break the fast now and then for a meal) and to re-introduce them to each other once or twice per week until it is obvious that she is gravid.
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>>Good luck!

I have been running into some of my snakes refusing food.
Luckily I have enough that will take the extra mice.
It seems to be more of my males this season but there are a couple of my females that seem to have gone to an every other week schedule.
It works out though, a few of my snakes are "hoovers", they will gladly take an extra mouse if someone else refuses.
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Corn snakes and rat snakes..No one can have just one.
"resistance is futile"
Jimmy (draybar)

Draybars Snakes

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Hi, this is not my area at all. but since I replied to darn near everything else, I can't leave you out.

I bred ball pythons last year.

BIG pic
http://www.herpzilla.com/ball/P1010001.JPG

I was new to that too. I was told the female ball gets a bulge when she is ovulating. And at one point she sure did. Also as my male was mating from Nov to Feb he never ate unless I took him away for a few weeks. Once my female ball ovulated, she stopped eating, til she laid her eggs. Have a pic of her eating on 9 eggs somewhere.

And the male may probably just be more interested in mating?

If they are active and drinking, I don't see much trouble. BUT PLEASE, wait for others.

Hope it helps
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AOL IM Mettzilla
I forgot my password for herpzilla, and gave a bad email,, major OOPS

1.3 Bearded Dragons
6 baby female Western hognose, 3.5 adults some friend some mine,,,building breeding stock)
1 Corn snake (bloodred) 0.2 1 MIA In the house I hope
1 baby creamcycle 0.1
2 Okeettes I think? 1.1 youngens
ochrocephala oratrix 0.0.1? Adult, and a killer!
ochrocephala auropalliata 0.0.1? Adult
2.0 Dogs,
0.2 Cats,,
0.1 Wives, (Long term captive!,, I mean ME!)
1.1 Kids (Paininthearsius takamemonii) J/K great kids
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tom

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What timing lol,,

I'm going to sit in the back of the room now.

Hi Kathy
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Computers don't make errors. What they do, they do on purpose. (Dale Gribble)

AOL IM Mettzilla
I forgot my password for herpzilla, and gave a bad email,, major OOPS

1.3 Bearded Dragons
6 baby female Western hognose, 3.5 adults some friend some mine,,,building breeding stock)
1 Corn snake (bloodred) 0.2 1 MIA In the house I hope
1 baby creamcycle 0.1
2 Okeettes I think? 1.1 youngens
ochrocephala oratrix 0.0.1? Adult, and a killer!
ochrocephala auropalliata 0.0.1? Adult
2.0 Dogs,
0.2 Cats,,
0.1 Wives, (Long term captive!,, I mean ME!)
1.1 Kids (Paininthearsius takamemonii) J/K great kids
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tom

www.herpzilla.com