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This is my first season attempting to breed and am looking for advice.

I purchased a '10 Lesser male From Susan Sentman before the weather got too cold. He was just over 750g when he arrived and is arround 870 now. Still eating a small F/T rat weekly with a little teasing. I popped him and got a sperm plug the first week I had him.

At the moment, I'm trying to breed him to an exceptional normal female who is 3 or 4 years old. When I put him into her tub, she almost always starts wagging her tail around and dragging her scent glands all over. She goes nuts almost instantly. The male seems to just sit there. After a little while, he starts to move around and smell at the lid of the tub. Never seems to act interested in the female.
I have been leaving him with her for 3 days at a time and checking them a couple times per day. I even sat and watched them for about 45 minutes straight once while she was going crazy. No sign of interest.

If anyone has any advice I'm all ears. I'm also trying to breed my male albino to a 7 year old, very dark, normal female. He at least seems interested, but no locks seen yet.

Thanks in advance. Hoping to get my first clutch out of this season so I can expand to better projects next year.

Some say misting helps. Some say wait for a storm front. Some put a fresh shed from another male in with the pair you are trying to breed. Some even put two males together briefly and on a supervised basis, to get hormones hopping. I just wait, try again in a couple of weeks, wait some more. Sometimes months. And then some never go, but that has been rare for me. With the pair that seem interested, you probably should not assume that not observing a lock means no lock. Some must just be quicker than others. Had a female drop 6 perfect eggs last year in her first season without me once recording an observed lock up. They do what they do. And they seem to be pretty good at it. Hang in there

AllBalledUp summed it up nicely.
I must ad that seeing a lock-up doesn't always equal a copulation either. And the worst news... always seeing a copulation doesn't always equal eggs
All of my high end stuff (pastel clowns and etc) had copulations last season but I got zero eggs from them. Of course all my lower end (pastels and etc) stuff I didn't see copulation on (or sometimes even lock ups) and I got eggs from all of them.
Just the way the egg cracks. I say expect nothing and you shall get everything. Worse case, you get what you expected.
Anthony Wrenn
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......she will come around....it's up to Her...

you have ...Nove, Dec,Jan, Feb, Mar,.....time...

it'll happen......
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My fingers are crossed for you Shayne!
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Susan Sentman
SSNAKES Reptiles
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