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Hello i have three balls in the same enclosure. Two females and a male. My male is only a yr old and the two females are close to a year. I noticed the male breeding with the larger of the females. They are setup in a 55 with one heatlamp on a timer. We did not want them to breed and the temp has not fluctuated at all...he did no preperation. Will this breeding result in young if the female is only a yr old?
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If she is not proper breeding size you may end up with an eggbound female - do your snakes a favor and separate them.
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Tosha

"Nihil facimus sed id bene facimus"

7.33.0 Ball Python (Harry and Fluffy and gang)
1.0.0 Angolan Python (Anakin Skywalker)
0.0.1 Green Tree Python (Verdi - yeah I know but my kids love the book)
0.2.0 Feline (Pippen and Pandora)
0.0.1 Desert Tortoise (Pope John Paul aka JP )
2.2.1 Fish (1,2,3,4)
0.0.2 frogs rescued from pool skimmer

It most likely won't take at that age, but if it does, Tosha's right, you may end up with an egg bound female. Which could prove fatal for your female. Do you know if the males is producing sperm plugs yet or not? The time of year, temps or a change in the day/night lighting sometimes have NO effect on whether or not they breed . Young males just get spunky sometimes. That's one of the similarities they have to their human counterparts LOL.

Quig

I agree with the other poster.... separate them, NOW.

Why on earth would you have put them together in the first place? It will cause nothing but problems.

A 55 gallon is fine, for ONE adult ball python. If you have 3, you should have 3 separate enclosures for them. If you don't, consider selling 2 of them.

They should not be kept together, at any time. Unless in the rare case that they are adults and you plan to breed them at the right time of year. This is not your case.
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1.0 gorgeous spider ball python
2.2 het for axanthic
5.20 normals
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oh and they will breed whenever they want to,and eat whenever they want to too.
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Charles Glaspie

Tanstaafl:
"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch".
An acronym created by my favorite author Robert A. Heinlein.

>>I agree with the other poster.... separate them, NOW.
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>>Why on earth would you have put them together in the first place? It will cause nothing but problems.
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>>A 55 gallon is fine, for ONE adult ball python. If you have 3, you should have 3 separate enclosures for them. If you don't, consider selling 2 of them.
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>>They should not be kept together, at any time. Unless in the rare case that they are adults and you plan to breed them at the right time of year. This is not your case.
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k first of all before you jump to conclusions on our husbandry ask details in fact we have just moved and have not yet setup up our other tanks which include a 135g 110g 55g all which are reserved for the snakes including the other 3 ball pythons which are residing at a freinds house until we settle the other three are females of breeding age and YES we do intend on breeding ball pythons that is why we have a pair of 100% hets the reason they are together is because they donot have there tanks setup and i assumed that breeding would not start as early as a week of being introduced the lighting was not adjusted and kept a 12 hour lighting schedule just because we ask a question about something don't assume that we are ignorant in any way our research on ball pythons and the breeding of is as detailed as the next person on another note this is my fiance that writes on here and is still new to the hobby and is trying to learn as much as she can which should be respected instead of been ridiculed so next time don't assume you are dealing with someone that is numb to the facts and try and stick to the question at hand like some of the other nice fellows that replied
thanks
justin
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The Crawl Space

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probably not. the females are to young and hes prolly not fertile because they werent cycled. right? maybe someone knows more, or can correct me.
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-Marshall
1.1 ball pythons

Contrary to popular belief they don't NEED to be cycled to breed sucessfully. It helps but it ain't a given.

Quig