Micromanaging..for lack of a better term will end up driving you crazy in the long term. Daily details are'nt needed. If the macroenvironment and the cycling parameters are done properly they'll do what they've evolved to do. A herper I greatly admire told me once "no wonder you can breed all this odd stuff, your being gone all the time for work forces you to leave your snakes alone"!

I don't handle any of my snakes except to clean and other husbandry stuff. I feed sparingly so as to keep my animals lean. Obesity is probably one of the biggest hurdles most breeders face...it really, really hurts successful fertilization. If you're housing them together and have the cage space to separate them pull the male, cycle them properly for say 5 weeks, then introduce the male during the cool down at night. Then watch. If nothing happens w/in 6-8 hours pull him for a week and retry.

My Bar Neck Scrubs will copulate then act as if the other one isn't even there. A 4 day break and they're right back at it.

Bill

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