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What is the youngest age and size that a male Emerald Tree boa can be bred to a full grown female?
Thanks

3 years old. I think you would be taking a risk any sooner.
Ed M.
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>>3 years old. I think you would be taking a risk any sooner.
>>Ed M.
>>http://www.EmeraldTreeBoa.com
Thanks Ed. Question, what would the risk be? Strain on his body since not enough fat reserves, or something else?
Anthony

The risk would be with her. If you try him at 2 and he stimulates the female enough but she may not get fertilized. There is a good chance she will ovulate and produce slugs and then you have to give her a year off. So now your male is 5.
I would wait till he is ready.
Ed M.

An interesting and very good point. I had considered physical harm as well as just no copulation at all.
Thank you Ed.

>>The risk would be with her. If you try him at 2 and he stimulates the female enough but she may not get fertilized. There is a good chance she will ovulate and produce slugs and then you have to give her a year off. So now your male is 5.
>>I would wait till he is ready.
>>Ed M.

Yes there is the danger of physical injury if the male is too small.

But considering other factors such as loosing what otherwise could be a viable breeding year is very important. With emerald tree boas everything happens way too slow and there are way too many things that can go wrong even if you do everything right. So do not take any additional chances other than the ones nature imposes to these snakes.

Do everything right, you may succeed. Do one thing wrong, you certainly fail. This is especially true for Corallus caninus.

Thanks. I will not even try to experiment with them in that case.
Hopefully, next year will be my first for boas. Pythons are far easier in comparison.

>>Yes there is the danger of physical injury if the male is too small.
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>>But considering other factors such as loosing what otherwise could be a viable breeding year is very important. With emerald tree boas everything happens way too slow and there are way too many things that can go wrong even if you do everything right. So do not take any additional chances other than the ones nature imposes to these snakes.
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>>Do everything right, you may succeed. Do one thing wrong, you certainly fail. This is especially true for Corallus caninus.
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