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I like to know at what age/weight I can breed with my angola pythons?
Did a lot of research on the web but only small information on breeding season, clutch sizes and incubation time is available.
Because these animals get a bit larger than ball pythons I guess the females need a bigger minimum weight for breeding?

Thanks in advance!

Min weight? What if an animal is 6yrs old and under this min weight? The animal is still mature and should breed fine. That min. weight is what people push for (power feed like a mo fo to get the animal to weight). This is not exactly the most healthy thing for the animal. There is no problem really in their first year as they grow the most. I had a blood python that never threw a fertile clutch due to this and she was massive (over 7 1/2ft). I would say 3-4 years would be fine, from what I've been told they are very easy to breed just like ball pythons. Sorry for the Rant.

John

Very true.
But minimum age/weight-ratio is a good indicator to be sure the animal is not too young. For example ball pythons 3y/1,5kg; treepythons 3y/1000kg..
Off course the whole body has to be in proportion.

But I guess angola's have to be like 2kg before breading. If I look at my '06 animals now, they are as big as a ball python of 1,5kg but too young to breed.

Thanks for the reply!

When Angolans were bred in this country for the first time (I think it was Dave Barker), the biggest problem was overweight females. Feed'm too much, they don't ovulate. They aren't heavy animals.
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1000 kg is a pretty heavy tree python. haha

The bottom line is that your snake will tell you when its ready. Why do you think you know better than her? In nature there is a range of sizes of animals. I'll bet some wild female angolans never even reach your minimum size yet they reproduce just fine.

Put her with a male. If she breeds then she is ready.

The question is are you ready? Smaller and younger females are less tolerant of keeper error. If your husbandry is up to par your snakes will do their thing.

Thats just my .02

If you want some more opinions, or just want to start online WWIII go post this question on the kingsnake forum. hahaha