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Past couple of says I have noticed this girl with the last part of her body rolled to one side.Normal behavior for a gravid female? Heat tape under the cage at the far end.It was more extreme than this but when I opened the lid she felt the cooler air outside of her tub and moved.

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I have had many questions about my poss gravid females. She looks like my 9ft het albino but I do not now for sure. By the way awesome animal. What is she? Thanks Mike

Some gravid females do lay on their sides. I came across 2 cases on the retailboas forum where 2 different individuals lost their boas due to complications. The two boas lost would lay on their sides.

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looks like normal gravid behaviour to me. I've seen that quite a few times in my females that produced litters.
Good luck, she's lovely!
-April
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'There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."' -Rainshadow

I never saw the football ovulation with this girl.She shed six weeks ago after having my male in with her off and on for a month. After the shed I put them back together and there was no interest. So I took him back out for awhile then reintroduced him later. He started courting again. So I was like surely she's not. Of course I found info stating that young males will court sometimes gravid females. She looks bigger at times when she's in her cage but when I take her out to clean and she has her muscles constricted she looks normal. Being that its been six weeks since her shed hopefully my doppler will tell me soon. I haven't offered food for almost a month. Going to offer food tonight. My guess is that if she's gravid it's slugs or a very small litter.

>>I never saw the football ovulation with this girl.She shed six weeks ago after having my male in with her off and on for a month. After the shed I put them back together and there was no interest. So I took him back out for awhile then reintroduced him later. He started courting again. So I was like surely she's not. Of course I found info stating that young males will court sometimes gravid females.

It's also possible that the laying on her side that you saw is pre-ovulation twisting (as Jeff Ronne would say 'do the twist'!) and the actual ovulation is still to come. In my 4 litters I have only seen the actual ovulation once and it was pure chance.

In my experiences the entire courting procedure takes more than a month (but of course there have been plenty of occurances here on the forums where that is not the case). If the male still shows interest, leave him in there, that's my motto.

When you say he showed no interest, how long do you leave him in before you remove him?

Either way, I hope the best for you because it sounds like that will be an awesome litter!
-April
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'There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."' -Rainshadow

I usually removed the male after not seeing any action for 2 or 3 days. As far as reintroduction time it depended on if I fed him or not.I check on them many times daily because I have the time and I'm like a little kid full of excitement seeing this activity. I don't wanna miss a thing ya know.I've had the thought myself that maybe the ovulation is yet to come as well.
The funniest thing I've seen was 5 days ago when he was courting her(maybe locked up) his tail was straight up in the air wagging like a puppy dog. I should have filmed it. I really need to get more pictures. The next day when I opened the tub he was in the middle of the tub in a coiled position. She was coiled around him and her whole lower body was in that laying on her side position.kodak moment ( bashes head on keyboard).
I believe if i'm blessed with babies even just a few they will be absolutely extravagant color wise for sure!

Wow...Beautiful...She's got color and then some. Very nice.....What was she bred by..? Best of luck. Andrew

A very sweet looking sunglow from Frank martin. Possible jungle possibly het anery very sweet pastel from his orangasm line. You know Frank as often as I advertise for you......

Anyway seeing as how I didn't see the football ovulation another behavior pattern I witnessed and think I even got a pic of was when for a couple of days she was stretched out but the back half of her body was in a real tight zig zag pattern and her muscles were real tight. I think it was like about 5 inches before one zig met the next zag. I believe I read something about this. I think Jeff called it the slowmo o. This behavior was witnessed after the shed though. She has also been drinking a lot more water lately.