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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

300g. 5 months old 2 clutches.. Dont try this at home!!
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Thanks for the reply jas!
This is encouraging, They have been locked for 8hrs solid. I wish I would have held off on a few of my females now! 300gms thats unreal!!!!

you should have a good chance at being successful.
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Vince Pramuk

if that was an 06 male I'd say you need to put on at least a couple hundred more grams but with it being an 05 there's a pretty good chance of you being successful. Age seems to have alot to do with breeding just as much as added weight. We all know a 1500g 18 month old female can breed and give good eggs but not much lower than 1500 for young females. However, we also know that 3-5 year old females that weigh 1200 will produce eggs alot more consistantly than those younger heavier females.

now to answer your question youngest snake to breed for me was a corn at 3.5 months and sired 3 clutches, youngest and smallest ball to breed was a 5 month old spider that weighed 358g pic is of him the day we brought him home.

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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles

Various Ball Pythons:::

1.0 striped vanilla
1.0 spider
1.2 Citrus Ghost and hets
1.2 Albino and hets
2.3 het Pied
0.6 50% poss het pied
1.1 Pastel (male has additional gene going on with him)
a bunch of normal female breeders
a bunch of normal female holdbacks and several rescued normal males

0.1 columbian boa, she's a feeding monster, controls my
over production of rats, lol
0.1 brazilian rainbow boa, another rat eating monster
1.1 corns

a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrier as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!