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She's not flagging

You want your question answered ok, cohabbing will cause the female to not be responsive. When a female doesn't want bred she will frantically try to get away. If you want to try again before the females next shed feed them and wait 3 days so they digest then try again. If she is still frantically trying to get away wait until after she sheds then try putting them together for 3 days then seperating for 3 and repeat as needed. Stop after seeing 3 hookups. That is the most common way I have seen it done.
 
Guys... when are you going to figure out that you can ALL talk until you are blue in the face, and it won't matter.

Cohabbing doesn't necessarily cause her not to be responsive... it just causes a billion other problems. But, I digress.

Your female is not receptive; yet your male is in full breeding mode. This is common. Its not "dominance" related... its hormonally related. Some girls just don't hit the "mood" at the same time as the boys. Often, as soon as the weather even begins to warm, the boys are enamoured with anything that moves. She is not going to flag her tail until she is good and ready. TBH, alot of females won't get the chance to flag their tails. Holding still for a second is all the opportunity the male needs to lock on. The force and speed in which a male attempts to penetrate her is often all it takes to catch her off guard.

So until she is receptive, I would seperate her. Regardless of how you feel about your snakes stress level in the past, she is stressed now. Just because she hasn't layed off food yet doesn't mean that it isn't an possibility. A breeding female that refuses to eat is a baaaaaaaaad thing. If she means anything to you, I wouldn't play roulette.
 
Thickthroat, just consider the advice these chaps are taking the time to give you...
Look around this forum, these guys know their stuff & are passionate about corns, we all are, so dont disregard this site, it's worth its weight in gold... ( to your snakies anyway) =] Good luck
 
Cohabbing a pair of breeding age in a large viv is actually quite a common and successful strategy used by breeders over here, especially if they don't brumate their corns. After advice from breeders who use this method, I've actually cohabbed 5 pairs (in 5 vivs) this year from January. There was no change in feeding or activity levels until the last 2 weeks, when the boys have stopped feeding and there have been mating chases and lock-ups. The females are feeding voraciously. I'm separating them next weekend and putting in layboxes.
I was worried, because of the general 'don't cohab' advice on here, which is why I questioned breeders who have done it this way successfully. If the females hadn't carried on feeding well I'd have separated them and just tried to catch post-shed ovulation for breeding, but that wasn't the case at all.
 
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