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My albino has been on a breeding rampage over here. This is my first year ever breeding snakes so I am very exicted and nervous.

I am trying to give him a few days break, and when I remove him from a female's cage he just wonders around in his own cage like a mad man.

He even exhibits breeding behavior at night in his own cage crawling around crushing his body up into the ceiling of his cage and curling his tail up and pressing into the substrate. I tried to get a meal into him after a complete days rest in his cage, and he shows 0 interest. He is starting to get very skinny hope he has a snack sometime soon.

Last night for the heck of it I put him in with his favorite female. This is the female that was the first he ever bred.

The snake is supposed to be a 100% HET albino, but the source is a little shaddy so I call her my possible HET albino. Well this morning I checked on them and they are locked up again for sure.

This would be the 5th copulation with this female. She is aprox 2100 grams and even though off feed has good weight/length ratio. I have seen snakes at breeding weight but because of there length/weight would from my basic knowlege not be breedable.

(sitting on 2001 HET albino girl from a VERY REPTUABLE SOURCE, 1700 gram toothpick, super skinny super-LONG, wonder if she will ever get some body weight) When she does eat, its only 1 mouse per sitting. Any rat trick I have tried fails 100% of the time. Needless to say I would never attempt to breed her for the fear of her health.

My question is because he is breeding her for the 5th time does this mean that the other 4 copulations DID NOTHING? After those first few breedings she started looking like a ballon, lying on her side belly up and all those good signs. But then it was if she deflated and then looked normal again.

Before placing them togther YESTERDAY I did notice she has some slight bulging in the rear half of her body. You can only really see it when she is curled up. Again has not eaten in months so it's not food.

Sorry for such a long post evertime, I'm just trying to give anyone who doesn't mind helping me as much detail as I can.

Hopefully one day with your help/advice we can all celebrate my FIRST ever baby snakes. I will take lots of pictures to share with everone if and when the day ever comes.

I also have a female who continues to breed one of my males, but has yet to have ovulated. The situation is similar to your own. She has been breeding regularly since late October.

I have another female that ovulated a week and a half ago after breeding 7 times since early November. I'd say that it's a great sign that your male remains interested in the female in question. Keep a hawk's eye on her to try and catch ovulation (check her every 12 hours at least). I suppose that there's not much else we can do.

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