Hi,

So I am trying to breed my corns this year.

I brought them out of brumation at the start of April and started feeding them smaller meals every 7 days (first meal was half grown mouse which they inhaled) on the 14th.

I tried introducing her to the male near the end of the cooldown and again after the first feeding.

He always went into the twitching stage but the female didn't seem intrested and I never saw any sucessfull locks.

So tonight I had another of my wierd ideas.

I put in the male house snake to see if that made any difference to her behaviour - god love him he actually tried but no success (and I can't imagine anything could have come from it anyway ).

She did seem a lot more energetic than usual though so I put the male corn in (all this was in a 24" temp tub normally used during cleaning) to see if it helped.

Low and behold she raised her tail and I saw this;







Appologies for the quality of the pics.

Now of course I think I disturbed them too much as they only stayed together for about 20 minutes.

She does still have her tail slightly elevated so I have placed them both in her normal tub to see if they get it on again.

Am I just rushing them as she has not yet shed and is only going back to full sized mice tonight?

My ball pythons are still locking up so it seems that everything is going to be late if it happens at all and it's starting to drive me insane.

Any tips appreciated.


dr del