Well, a friend down in Texas that has bred Colombians for a few years thinks that the one that probes 5/11 is a female and that the probe may have gone straight through (poked a hole) on the one side. I wondered about that too. He keeps insisting that all of his females, from 2002-2006, all probe 8-9 scales, and all of his males from the same years/ages, probe around 12-15 scales. Including the ones he has already bred and knows exactly what genders they are. He swears up and down that my 2 are female. I just don't know, because Jeff told me different (he said basically the same as ball pythons).
Has anyone ever witnessed any actual fighting behavior between 2 males, or any color-change "white-siding" during breeding?
They've been together for over a month now, and they have never fought or started the territorial fighting that you would associate with males. But I haven't seen them court each other either -- or I don't know what it looks like. They basically ignore each other. Either laying on opposite ends, or laying in a pile not doing much. Mercedes, the "female" did develop major white siding that Jeff thought may have been as a result of breeding behavior like his BRB females get. It's gone now that she shed, but with all of her other sheds she had never had that. Only now that they were together. Pablo didn't get it, "he" stayed normal.
This is frustrating me beyond belief.
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~* Jen *~
