What stage, if even successful?

Just took a few shots of my normal ball pythons, hoping you could share you opinion of rather you think they are carrying presents for me or not. I can say that I've witnessed lockup on both of them, they have also starting rejecting the male (I have not seen a successful lock for about 1 week)

The pictures are unfortunately of bad quality due to i used my cell to take them.
Female 1, one pic of her lying down, and one of her "hanging?"
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...108_732114.jpg
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...9/dsc08111.jpg
The hanging did not come out to good, she does not like hanging, she must hold something whit her tail to feel safe :)

Female nr 2
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...9/dsc08112.jpg
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...9/dsc08113.jpg
She on the other hand approve of hanging around, so i could take an extra picture from her back as well.
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...9/dsc08114.jpg

Hope you can help me!
// Sam

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Originally Posted by Odd-sam

Just took a few shots of my normal ball pythons, hoping you could share you opinion of rather you think they are carrying presents for me or not. I can say that I've witnessed lockup on both of them, they have also starting rejecting the male (I have not seen a successful lock for about 1 week)

The pictures are unfortunately of bad quality due to i used my cell to take them.
Female 1, one pic of her lying down, and one of her "hanging?"
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...108_732114.jpg
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...9/dsc08111.jpg
The hanging did not come out to good, she does not like hanging, she must hold something whit her tail to feel safe :)

Female nr 2
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...9/dsc08112.jpg
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...9/dsc08113.jpg
She on the other hand approve of hanging around, so i could take an extra picture from her back as well.
http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...9/dsc08114.jpg

Hope you can help me!
// Sam

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I would say no. Not having a lock in a week means nothing. Looks like they are glowing a bit for you though. Which could mean ovulation isnt too far off. Just keep pairing.

They don't look like they are building much. But it may be early building so hard to say. Keep pairing.
What where their weights before this? Have they been fiending for food? A lot of time on the warm side usually means good things. Along with the glow.

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You said you haven't seen a lock in a week - Are you housing them all together permanently? My male only sees each female about once a month for 2-3 days at a time. They should be getting separated for breaks for a few days in between breeding sessions.

I just took their weights, the first female have gained about 425grams sense i started breeding, unfortunately the second female have lost about 50 grams :/

No, neither of them have been fiending for food, I've gotten the first female to take 1 rat and a few mice (~3) during the breeding time, the other one have not taken anything ( I offer them food once a week). Atm, they both spend more time on the hot spot, but i still find them on the cold side where they tend to say an hour of two.

No, i host them 2 and 2, rotating the male around them. I normally take the male to an separate tank on the weekends so he can relax and eat if he wants to.


I will continue paring them up, and hope that they will lock again.