May be it happened

[Python2000]

Hello
i've placed one female in shed with the spider male that seems not interested in breeding yet. There was no interest at beginning but during the night she did the shed and there was much blood on her cloaca and on the shed near the tail. I haven't seen anything but i was not looking in the night.... what you think? Have you observed that too? I saw blood coming during copulation of my colubrid snakes many times....

Thank you


Flavio

[xdeus]

Doesn't sound like it. Snakes will often bleed a little bit during shed, and it's usually hard to miss them locking up because they often lock for a day or longer.

Keep trying!

[Python2000]

Ok but i never saw such amount of blood during shed. And the female blood wason the external part of the shed not internal one.I know i didn't noticed any sign of attraction but when i checked there was no scars on the snake's skin or cloaca. The male had sperm splitted on cloaca. The male is doing sperm plugs every day. I would be sure they copulated if there would be the problem they should lock up for more than 5-6 hours, the time i didin't checked them because i was sleeping
I will keep trying but sounds strange they're not mating because i have 3 females over 4 years old and quite fat (1600 - 1900 grams) and the male is 1100 grams producing sperm.... I reched cycling temps since 15 days and i started to reduce temps gradually since the end of september... is that too short time may be?
Thank you

Flavio

[Sputnik]

Until you see a visual lock it's best to assume nothing happened. Good luck

[elevatethis]

Just keep at it...they'll get with the program. From what I understand, the continued presence of a male is just as important to her breeding cycle as a successful copulation, so just keep plugging him into her and you'll be fine. Its still very early in the season, don't need to worry yet.

I haven't even started cooling...the girls are still pounding food like its going out of style so I figure I'll just let them let me know when its time to slow down.