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Can anyone tell me what two "combating" males look like?..

Heres why...I just put my KILLER male ( I know this) Hypo het Ghost with what supposed to be my female Anery...
And unlike all my other boas that are paired up these two were super active, just moving around like crazy, and they both seemed to be very tense...and then "female" kept flexing "her" back up when the male would go over "her".. and looked almost like she was going to strike..

were they "combating" or could it just be very aggresive courting?

Thanks, Terry

you should sex it or have it sexed....
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- Mike Fourquet

Cloaca Herpetoculture
www.CloacaHerps.com

I would probe them to make sure, but I have seen females "flick" males off before, I have never really seen what I would call combat in boas, a little pushing to get to a female, but that is about it. Craig

I've seen 2 proven females behave that way. First time I saw it, the female never became receptive, second female I saw it with became receptive then produced a litter from that pairing.

Definetely verify the sex though.
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Randall L Turner Jr.
Boas make the world go round.

Which is precisely why I'm currently single .

I've noticed such activity with many of my pairings (talking snakes now), and I have very little experience such far. So I would assume it's somewhat normal. Two of my three current pairings did similiar stuff right after being introduced. One of the females I tried to breed last year, didnt take (hard to without courtship I think). She wasnt real keen on the males climbing on her then... rejecting their advances always. My males were younger/smaller then... so I'm thinking the extra maturity gave the current male with her enough energy to persuade her into letting some action happen. There are many other variables in the equation that could have caused successful courtship, but I'm thinking the male maturity played a big role.
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Take Care,

-Ryan Homsey

www.topnotchboas.com

We put our "proven" BCL pair together this year and they locked up like two bulldogs !!!
Not sure what the deal was ? but they stayed constricted for about 4-5 min and released each other. Not sure what the deal was ?

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