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I put a male in with my female spider tonight. She immediately started circling her cage and wagging her tail like a dog with her butt protruding. What does this mean?

I am breeding my pastel with my normal girl tonight for the first time and my girl did that too a little bit. I'm pretty sure its just the girls way of saying "Get on!" but I could be wrong. If anyone knows differently please inform me of my mistake.

Good luck with your project tonight!
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Coolluigi

1.0 Pastel
0.1 Normal (Huge girl I might add)
and soon to be more. *fingers crossed*

good luck, probably locked up by now.

ck

"Come on big boy" should have locked pretty quick.
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I've observed this not only in balls, but in other snake species, when the female is NOT receptive. This year my female spider hooked up with my male Pied several times. Then one day she suddenly started agitatedly wagging her tail and cruising her cage as soon as he was introduced. She didn't accept him then, and hasn't since (this was three weeks ago).
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Brad Chambers

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Thats what happened here. It was my female spider that had been with my male pastel on 2 other times, (both of which they locked up), but this time she wasn't having it. I took him out and will try reintroducing them again in a few days.

Unfortunately I've seen tail wagging go both ways - it could either mean come and get me - or stay the hell away - you know us females we like to keep ya guys guessing!!!

Hopefully its the former not the latter!!!!

Good luck!
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Tosha
JET Pythons

Personally never seen it in a negative way, not questioning you, just sharing my breeding experiences. Actually haven't seen it but a couple of times but in my experiences it is a positive gesture.
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that it can go both ways. I've seen it several times in balls and it's never been a good sign....
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Brad Chambers

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The only tail wagging I have seen was this year, by my Spider female, right after I put my male Sulfur Pastel in with her. NO mating was noted. I will try again. The Spider female DID take three more rats since the tail waggin, so I am confident that she will be receptive this year.

Dave

I put a pair together a couple of nights ago and almost immediately began to hear a swish-swish sound. (They're on newspaper) When I looked in the female was wagging her tail in a big way. Not really sure what she was sayin', but my RDR Goblin (YB) male took it as a come and get it! Needless to say they were lock up tight the following morning.
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Louis Kirkland
Cornerstone Reptiles

The female stopped with the tail thing and waited for my pastel to come and get her, except he just spend the whole night trying to get out of her cage. I'm going to try again, but maybe in his cage this time. Maybe that will make him feel more at home.
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Coolluigi

1.0 Pastel
0.1 Normal (Huge girl I might add)
and soon to be more. *fingers crossed*

I have observed this several times.

When placing my 500gram spider male in with an adult female, the first thing he does is circle the tub, vent open, wagging the last 2-3 inches of his tail rapidly. The female showed no response.

Then, de to space issues I've had a couple 07 girls bunking together in a 31 qt. When I first placed them in together, they were both off circling the tub, tails waggling. This was my first observation of this, and I checked on them every hour to be sure everything was ok. By morning they were resting as if nothing was the matter.

When placing my pastel male in with a female, I do not see him set to tail waggling, nor does the female. Then again, I haven't observed them at length because I was less worried than I was about my young spider in with an adult, seeing as my pastel male is well over 1000 grams.

I wonder if it has something to do with dominant/submissive behavior. Is it the more submissive snake that does the waggling, 'scenting' and letting the other snake know it is not intending harm? Or is the male/female marking its territory and trying to deter the invader??? Most curious...

I think it is a way of saying "hey this is MY house." I said earlier in this post theses 2 snakes have been introduced 2 times before and locked up both times for hours on end. The female (spider) has always been laid back and shy. When I placed him in with her this time she was on red alert. She popped her head up quick and was did not appear to be happy to see him. I guess she was having some regrets........damn women.......

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Brad Chambers

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