Downfall to "overlocking"

I know a lot of people say a female only needs to lock once per shed cycle on average. My question is if there is any downfall to more frequent than that. I have a male who is locking with everything he sees every time he is in with them. The joy is he still eats like a champ..so as long as he keeps eating and I keep giving him breaks between females is there any reason to limit the number of times he is in with the females in a set amount of time? He is only breeding 3 females and I am giving him 2-3 days off after every lock. In the past two weeks he has locked with each female twice (he has yet to be in with a female for more than 12 hours without locking up)

Don't think there is a downfall if he's still eating. Are the females still eating?

Yeah they have been eating as well, had one skip one meal but she is the girl that is spotty sometimes at feeding anyway.

someone posted the other day that the males will only produce so many sperm plugs

Hmm, interesting. Do you remember where that was or the number they can produce?

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...=1#post2157462

finally found it

The biggest issue will be unnecessarily wearing out the male. Even if he is eating, it is wear and tear on the parts and more chance for random weird/bad things.

One good lock a month with each girl is all you really need. Also, in some instances, it only takes one lock ;)

I guess I will chill out with him for a bit and give him a few weeks break before his next "session"