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I have set up about half dozen pairs of adult, brumated snakes. All have eaten well and shed, some have shed more than once. I have seen no breeding activity whatsoever, although granted I am in the snake room only at odd intervals through the day and more extended on the wknd when I clean and feed. Last yr, I only had one pair and the activity was hard to miss! The snakes have been together for about 3 wks now, should I go ahead and separate them and set the females up with their laying boxes? or continue to leave them together? How often do they breed and it goes unseen?

Can't exactly answer your question, but can share my own pending circumstances....

At the beginning of March I placed 1.2 corns in our big 40 gallon display vivarium in the living room. I began to wonder if the male was just too young to breed because I never saw anything, and it's right next to my computer so I would have noticed something. I finally added one other female to the group, and WHAMMO, within moments I looked over and thought one was strangling the other... I looked closer and they were locked up. OOh goodie! So Hermes knew how to do it afterall. I pulled the other two females and left Hermes with his new girl. I've seen them at it five or six other times. Hermes is a little stud! Strange I never saw the same with the other two girls. But those two girls are hugely fat, quite blue, and I think ready to lay eggs in the next ten to fifteen days. Yippee!!!

So, as long as they really ARE gravid, I would say that sometimes they like their privacy and only do things when you aren't there to witness it, and sometimes they just love to show off. They're cornsnakes... and cornsnakes LOVE to mate!
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~Sasheena