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New male for second clutch

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snakegirl243

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I have a very healthy gravis female snow. She is currently bred to an amel stripe. Once she lays her eggs, I would like to breed her to a ghost. All of my research says that if she is healthy I can introduce the male immediately after she lays. She has not stopped eating during this time and appears to be in great health. Is it ok to introduce a different male for the second clutch? I don't own the amel striped so he is not an option.
 
snakegirl243 said:
I have a very healthy gravis female snow. She is currently bred to an amel stripe. Once she lays her eggs, I would like to breed her to a ghost. All of my research says that if she is healthy I can introduce the male immediately after she lays. She has not stopped eating during this time and appears to be in great health. Is it ok to introduce a different male for the second clutch? I don't own the amel striped so he is not an option.
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Sorry, gravid female snow.
 
You can certainly try, but she may still "use" retained sperm from the first male, so you can't be guaranteed that the Ghost would be the father of the second clutch. You still might get hatchlings from the Amel Stripe. At least pipping time would have an extra dimension of excitement!
 
I can only speak from my personal experience on this subject, so im pretty sure im the exception to the rule...

Ive only dealt with one double clutch so far. The female came to me as a proven breeder. She had already had 2 clutches under her belt, but they spanned 2 years, so no double clutching. I paired her (snow) with an anery male. She laid 18 eggs and i got 18 anery babies. After one meal and her post lay shed, i paired her with an amel male. I got 6 eggs and 5 amel babies.

I do not think she would have double clutched without my assistance.

I wonder, though, as the anery male was my most prolific breeder, was all his sperm used up by the female during the first clutch, or did the amel male "wash" it out?
 
I do not think she would have double clutched without my assistance.
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In my experience, females are either double-clutchers or they're not. If they are, then they can happily produce two clutches from one mating session early in the year. If they're not, then all the mating in the world won't trigger them to lay a second clutch.

If they're going to double-clutch, this doesn't always happen from their first year of breeding. Sometimes it takes one or two seasons before they start. It also seems to have a lot to do with condition. If they recover fast from laying the first clutch, then there seems a higher probability of a second. When I've slowed down post-lay feeding, the instance of double-clutching drops off.
 
5 out of the 7 females i used this season double clutched on their own. There were some slugs in all of the 2nd clutches. The 2 that didnt only weighed around 350 at the beginning of the season, but the ones who did were between 450 and 600. I know this doesnt answer the question... just my experience this year.
 
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