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My 1st Boa Breeding Attempt

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This is my first time trying to breed reptiles of any sort and I'm bloody nervous. Especially since these two are my favorite favorites. So sorry for the long post but hey, there's pictures :thumbsup:

This is the second time I put them together, the first time she just wasn't having it. I put them in Q tubs next to each other with one of his sheds in her tub for about three weeks. I talked to Joe and Nicole over at stripedboas and put them back together the day before thanksgiving.

Fitz (Cherry line male) had refused his last two feedings, gave himself minor nose rub trying to pop the lid next to her enclosure and left a sperm plug on my arm when I had him out to clean his cage.

Mi Cara (unknown Hypo) hasn't missed a meal since I've had her and gave herself minor noserub because I wouldn't take her out. (She is Not spoiled.) I printed out some boa breding stuff and used it to line her tub.

So I put them in a neutral tank, a damnably dark boaphile. I can't see anything unless they're right up on the glass or I stick the camera in there and take a pic with the flash.

Day one she spends the whole day smashing the crap out of him, I taped a picture to the front of the cage so she could see that he belonged on top of her. I spent the whole day hoping he was ok. Handling her every day I didn't realize how big she really is, he looks so small with her. Day two lots of cleaning urates and a possible lock up? I don't know. Stupid dark cage. *kicks rocks* Day three she's blue and more urates. Today I have more urates. Are they supposed to piss this much?! The last pic is from today, the second to last one is both their tails.

Sorry the pictures aren't better, I'm not that spiffy with a camera and I'm trying not to bug them a lot (trying really hard).
 
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Thanks! I think she ovulated, so they may have figured it out. They've both shed and have been ignoring each other for the past three days so I'm going to pull her and try feeding them. Fitz hasn't accepted food for two months now.

First the pic of her swollen up, it looked bigger in person
Second, you can see her tail in the back, normal with no bulge here
Third, I realized that none of the pictures showed Fitz's pattern very well, so here's Fitz from this summer
And just because there's room for one more and I really like this shot of his head w/ her tail. The sun shows her color better. It's from this summer when I was deciding if I should or shouldn't.
 
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Fingers crossed for a litter of healthy, pretty young'uns!
 
Thanks, I'll actually be happy if nothing bad happens to these two. I've been reading horror stories so now I'm paranoid :(
 
I'm going with No.

She was looking promising, doing the I'm preggers boa thing and then she stopped & got normal sized/acting again. She's making up for lost meals with a vengeance too.

It was her first year being bred though so I wasn't really all that hopeful. I have Dyer line stripe/aberrant throwing hypo or a nicely striped Aby line to try her with again this year. Now I have an idea of her cycle timing so it should go better.

Fitz had to go over my brother's house since a couple of my other girls decided to ovulate this year to spite me. I didn't think they were ready to breed but Fitz disagreed and wouldn't go back on feed.

He's only taken two meals since September and one was puked back up. He's most likely out of the running for this coming season. I'll send him back over to my brother's house to avoid him staying off feed again if need be.

I'm not going to risk losing him just to maybe get some babies, no matter how pretty they would be.
 
It could of been ovulation that you seen, as far as her size increase. How long was the male in with her?
 
The first time he was in there for maybe ten minutes, she spazzed out and I went in with a hook and towels to pull him out. That was the first time (& only) she ever showed any aggression at all.

The second time in for about three weeks/month out for three days for attempted feeding, back in for another month, interest stopped and he was bullied over to the coldest corner while she bellied up on the heat so I pulled him for good.

I'm pretty sure I missed it when I pulled him out because she was flipping out on him. I don't care how wussed it makes me, I'm not having any of my snakes bit, tossed and bashed about.

I'm going to do the cages next to each other and tossing the males shed in with her thing again this year. Hopefully that way she won't bash/toss the male around the cage. I'm actually going to do it with the other girls as well since this year will be their first.
 
Have you ever tried putting the female in the males cage? I had a female last year that would do that and I put her in the males cage and presto, I had a litter of 24. :) Have you ever read Jeff Ronne's book? It has a lot of interested facts about getting boas to breed.
 
I'll deff try that this year.

I've read Ronne and others, multiple times. Unfortunately, I don't think Cara is literate.

Thanks for the tips, I appreciate it :)
 
Lol, Cara is the big hypo girl. It was just a joke about her not going by the book like a good snake.
 
You could cool her down real good so she is in a lethargic
state :rofl:
She might snuggle up a little then :shrug01:

;)
 
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