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I have a 5 year old male dumerils that I can not get interested in my 2 adult females. I have tried to find info but little is available on there breeding...they are in perfect health and this is my first attempt with dumerils...any tips would be awsome.
Thanks
Well, it's not usually a challenge to get male dumerils interested in the females. People used to believe using male to male combat was necessary to stimulate breeding activity, but it is not. First thing I would check for is the presence(or lack of) spurs. Male dumerils have pronounced spurs from birth while females do not. If you can't find spurs, you have all females, if you find all with spurs, you have all males. And so on and so forth. Once you do determine what sexes you have, you can cycle your animals with light cycles and/or temperature cycles. Let me know what your ratio of males/females turns out to be once you double check, and I'll go from there. I've been able to get courtship and copulation every month of the year....not successful copulations, but the males did indeed show interest and pursue the females to the point of copulation. Take care!
Paul
To augment the previous reply from Paul:
What are you calling adult females? Although I've read that female dum's are ready to breed around 2 years old, I think 3-5 years is a better starting point. Also, I think you might want to introduce them 1.1 intead of 1.2. I am under the impression that the female should be larger than the male as well, but I can't substantiate this further than my own reptile room.
Do you concur, Paul?
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Zoodude
"Just because I'm paranoid, it doesn't mean they aren't after me."
I definitely agree with the age factor. I've rarely seen 2 year old dumerils females that are ready to breed IMO. As far as size, yes, my females are generally larger than my males. The ratio, I've done 1.3 and had all three take, but it could play a role depending on different factors. So, sure, I concur-LOL!
Take care
Paul
Thanks for the affirmation. I wonder what happened with our original post-er.
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Zoodude
"Just because I'm paranoid, it doesn't mean they aren't after me."
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