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My male Braz. rainbow is having sex with my already pregnant female thats due to give birth. Is this normal? Is he trying to help induce her?

Are you sure it is actually due to give birth, or is she just very swollen from ovulating now?. Quite often people think boas are actually gravid when in fact they are ovulating so they can later be be fertilized by the male. This is a very common mistake for people to remove the male far too prematurely before the egg follicles are able to actually be fertilized by the male. Boas typically just start "courting" the female around Fall/winter time and can last for months sometimes until they actually copulate. They typically have young anywhere from early August into October.

Usually by the time the female is gravid, the males will have lost all interest.

~Doug
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Yea I'm almost positive she is due. She has gotten bigger throughout the past 5 months. The past month she has gotten very active more than ever, usually she is never active. She also recently ate 3 mice compared to 5 for one meal then refused for 3 weeks. Then I realized the temps were down a little, I raised the temps and then she ate 2 mice not long after that refusing to eat more than 2! It was a little around 5-6 months ago that they last mated too. So I'm pretty sure!

Hmm, yeah, all that certainly does sound like she is gravid. Especially since she is refusing more and more to feed now.

I would ask some detailed stuff regarding it on the "Rainbow boa" forum, here's the link.......
Rainbow boa forum

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Thanks!