It doesn't make any difference if you put the male in with the female or vice versa. While there may be an immediate "flee" reaction from the female, she will calm down. I'd speculate that you'd get a similar reaction from her if you took the male out and tried again later. The female needs to get used to the male's presence, and that might take a day or so.

Like Doug said in his post below, it's still very early in the season. It have yet to have any of my Corn Snakes breed in 2010, but I've had Garters, Russian Rats and Pine Snakes already bred this year.

Tim

Russian Rats breeding 12 days ago:

Third Eye

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• Breeding questions - mrkent, Wed Mar 17 01:23:24 2010
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• RE: Breeding questions - mrkent, Wed Mar 17 09:25:40 2010
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• I don't mean to hijack this thread.... - Rob Lewis, Wed Mar 17 10:53:01 2010
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• that's right!...... - DMong, Wed Mar 17 13:51:06 2010