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I had a pair of Suri's together in november and didnt see any action so I put my sunglow in to enduce competition and it ended up my "male" suri was really a female so I took her out due to her size, not that I'm big on BCC x BCI breedings I decided to leave the sunglow in and he's been none stop courting. I take him out ever few weeks to give him a meal and then put him back in after a few days and he goes right back to courting the female within an hour or 2, well I took the sunglow out for 2 week and gave him 2 meals, in the mean time the the female Suri shed, I put the male back in with her 3 days ago and he shows no interest in her at all. Could I of missed her ovulation or could the male be not in the "mood" anymore since he was away 2 weeks? here's a pic of the pair

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0.1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.0.0 Yellow Anaconda
1.1.0 Suriname Red Tail Boa
1.1.0 Guyana Red Tail Boa
1.0.0 Coral Sunglow Boa
0.1.0 Coral Albino Boa
0.1.0 Arabesque Het Albino Boa
0.1.0 DH Sunglow Boa
1.1.0 Red Blood Python
1.2.0 Jungle Carpet Python (females VPI Bloodline)
0.1.0 Burmese Python (Rescue)
0.1.0 Albino Retic (Lavender)
1.1.0 Western Hognose (Orange-Red albino, Extreme Red Het Albino)
0.1.0 Avicularia Versicolor
1.0.0 Cat

Zack Greens Reptiles

"could the male be not in the "mood" anymore"

Male breeding "moods" are driven by female pheromones. They smell a female "in heat" and they are all over her. They don't sense it they don't breed.

IMO either she ovulated and is now gravid or simply did not take. All you can do from here is wait. As long as he's OK, not trying with all his energy to get away from her, you could leave him in for a while but if no activity after a while, might as well seperate them.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Thanks for putting it so blunt Dave, I'll leave them together for a little bit longer, they are almost on oposite sides of the cage but just in their coils to neather seem stressed, I'll just cross my fingers and hope for the best. do you know about how long the gestation periodis for bcc x bci cross are I believe the true BCC's are abut 105 POS but not positive.

Thanks
Zack
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0.1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.0.0 Yellow Anaconda
1.1.0 Suriname Red Tail Boa
1.1.0 Guyana Red Tail Boa
1.0.0 Coral Sunglow Boa
0.1.0 Coral Albino Boa
0.1.0 Arabesque Het Albino Boa
0.1.0 DH Sunglow Boa
1.1.0 Red Blood Python
1.2.0 Jungle Carpet Python (females VPI Bloodline)
0.1.0 Burmese Python (Rescue)
0.1.0 Albino Retic (Lavender)
1.1.0 Western Hognose (Orange-Red albino, Extreme Red Het Albino)
0.1.0 Avicularia Versicolor
1.0.0 Cat

Zack Greens Reptiles

LOL, any time!!

As for gestation on the cross, IF BCC is POS + 105, so is BCI so probably a good estimate.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats