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I was hopig to get some input here!
I have a 66% het for lavender albino male that is a 05 hatch. I initially had planned to breed him as late in the season as I could to get his weight above 750gm. I have been finding sperm plugs in his tub and am very motivated to get a possible clutch from him this season. So even though I know he should be a minimum of 750 gm , I put him in with a female to observe his reaction and he seemed to be trying to court the female. I left him with the female and today they are locked up . The question is how maany of you have been successful with a young male and what was the lowest weight male that produced a viable clutch. Thanks

In my opinion and experience, I say forget what a lot of other "breeders" are saying about what can breed and what cant. I mean sure there are limits but...When I first got started I wanted to use a large group(8 males) of various 100% het morphs most were barely 450g and all but one bred, he had respiratory. Everyone told no way could that many breed and if they did most wouldnt have viable sperm and cause my females to slug-out, but they didnt. I use 3-4 females per male.
Another example are females, When I held back some female pastels all 6 were between 1000-1100g and again everybody said I was nuts, once again my clutches showed me otherwise.
So I say go for it and your male probably got the job done and if you want to be certain just keep putting him back and forth between rest! Good Luck

Thanks for your reply ...........Since my original post He has been locked up weekly. He gets the weekends off for rest and feed,He continues to feed normally and I feel there is a possibility of a clutch from him this season.........Thanks for the encouragement and good luck this season.