I have a 5 year old ball python who refuses to eat anything dead and is afraid of anything bigger than a mouse. Consequently he eats LOTS of mice. This is getting quite expensive so I decided to start breeding my own. I set up a ten gallon tank with food, water, two wooden houses, one male, and three females. One of the females was already pretty big when i got her and gave birth about a week after bringing them home. My problem is that the male now doesn't seem interested at all in the other two females. He avoids them, sleeps and plays on the other side of the cage from them, and will only eat and drink when they are sleeping. Is there anything I am doing wrong or something else I can do to encourage him to breed with the two females?
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? About encouraging mice to breed
assie2071
Nov 27, 2006 09:55 PM
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tomorrow264
Nov 27, 2006 10:26 PM
I'm going to guess that he has already bred with the other two females. He probually did it while you were sleeping since mice are nocturnal. I have had many mice as pets and I have never seen a male mouse not intrested in a female mouse. Give it a couple weeks and I'm sure their bellys will start to grow. Good luck.
Deanna
assie2071
Nov 27, 2006 10:49 PM
Thanks. I guess i just needed to know nothing was wrong since he seems to avoid them so much. I'll give them both a couple more weeks, and hopefully we have some more baby's. In the mean time the one that was pregnant when I got her had at least 14 that i can count, they're still really small though and it's hard to tell when there in that pile. That should tide my bp over for a while.
Kingofspades
Nov 28, 2006 12:09 AM
Massage Oils
Scented Candles
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Haha.
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If all the beasts were gone,
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toshamc
Nov 28, 2006 12:36 AM
If he's already knocked them up then there would be no reason for him to continue breeding with them. Also - sometimes if you put too many females in with a male they will literally gang up on him and castrate him (rendering him unable to perform). Hope its the former not the latter! Good luck!
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Tosha
