Hey D,
Whats up man? Hope SC was a blast.
As for your post, I have never fed vipers while together for mateing. As you know, I only have the pair of squams now and my big female could very easily kill and eat the male if food was on her mind. I have occasionaly seperated them for a day or 2 and attempted to feed. Although the female usualy takes, the male hardly ever does. The one time I did get him to take (last year somtime)he didnt seem interested at all in mateing anymore. However, this was after keeping them together for some 3 weeks already so maybe he was just out of bullets
I genneraly sway away from the idea, espcially with the tendancy of female arboreals dwarfing the males but if you are reffering to seperateing them for feeding and then reintroduceing them I guess it dosent matter. I would definately give them a day to settle down first. My female could be ready to explode but will still attempt to eat anyhing that moves shortly after.
As for weather or not this could help in rejuvinateing them, I think it can. Though not arboreals, I have seperated the Aspidelaps lubricus, fed them a small meal and then reintroduced them and they were at it like rabbits! This was after haveing them together for awhile untill neither were showing any interest in each other. Maybe they just needed an intermission to smoke a jackAs a matter of fact, the female was trying to court the male!!!
Well man, I look foward to hearing your input on this. BTW, any chance of you hitting up the Richmond Va show? It will be a hot one!!!!! Ill shoot you an email about it.
Take care bro,
Jeremy
