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bluerosy
at Tue Apr 6 21:37:07 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by bluerosy ]
LEAVE THEM TOGETHER!
What you are experiencing is normal and part of mating. If you keep disturbing them you might not get the results.
What you are describing has nothing to do with the larger male trying to eat the female. I would be more worried about cannibalism if this was not going on. If the male is on top of her and biting her is normal. Sometimes it looks to us humans to be rough. But this is what they are designed to do.
To be successful at herpetoculture one must understand the ecology of the snake. Let the snakes teach us and forget about trying to do what "we" think is right. Listen to the snakes! This goes for a host of other misinformtion out there that most people still use (do0 today. There are a lot of mistakes done by experrinced and seasoned herpetoculturits. So don't feeel like i am picking on you. We all make mistakes. What we need o do is learn from the snakes in ALL areas of husbandry, ecology, basic anaotomy and adapt them as best we can to captive condituions.
One thing is for sure. For your snake to try and reproduce, you are already succsessful by supporting them . Breeding efforts prove this.
Sorry i didn't mean to scream above. Sometimes i just want to wake people up to certain things and feel like jumping through the screen and into your snake room to explain better.
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RE: Sorry for being a pain but - bluerosy, Tue Apr 6 21:37:07 2010
