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4riscorn

4riscorn

ACR#774 NevaeH Reptiles
We have been putting pairs together for a couple of weeks now and none have had any interest. We did find out that our female was a male and the male a female. But even so they still won't hook up. He is interested she is not. And when I used the same male with another female...the same thing. Same with my other pairs...no interest at all. I have tried all times of the day, misting, leaving them for hours at a time and still nothing. Any other things I should try? I did not have this trouble last season at all. We are in the process of moving and I am wondering if they can sense the chaos???
 
There are multiple things that can change there breeding times, even depending on the light let into the room did you brumate last year or do anything different. And have you had any different temperature changes this season, are they left on same temps all year round?
 
We only brumated eight of our snakes this year, but only a couple are breeders. The rest were on a separate rack with some younger snakes so we couldn't brumate them. And a couple of the others were from another breeder who also brumated some of them. Last year only the male in our breeder group (only bred 2 females last year) was brumated and for a shorter period than this year. We have room temp on 72 all year long since we also have geckos in there. This is temporary because tomorrow we start moving to a house that will have 2 separate rooms.
 
For me, breeding seasons could fluctuate by up to a couple of months either way. The same pairs didn't hook up at the same times each year. Just because we put a male and a female together, they're not automatically going to perform.

As has been stated, many factors affect their timing, some of which we don't clearly understand. Air pressure for example - an impending thunderstorm does make a successful coupling more likely and we have no control over this.

In your shoes I'd just keep trying at intervals as long as the snakes aren't obviously stressed. Two weeks isn't that long in the breeding season. Maybe the female isn't at the right point in her ovulation cycle, one or the other is too close to going into shed... perhaps she just has a headache!

I can't help but think the house move is going to put another spanner in the works by adding extra elements of stress for the snakes - both the packing up and transportation, then settling in and getting used to the new smells and sounds (even in the same tanks with the same fittings and setup, they will be aware of other changes).
 
luckily the house is only 4 houses up on the same road..that means faster transport time..but still moving them around does mess with them I am sure. They will be one of the last things we move.
I too have heard of the thunderstorm thing but we had quite a few over the past week and it didn't help. I felt lumps in one of the females this morning so she may be just starting ovulation now.
 
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