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my cinnimon started breeding at 350 grams but most of mine didnt show interest untill 500ish grams
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My male YB was a whopping 360g when he made his first lock to my 1700g normal.
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My YB male was in the 375g range when he started locking up.
Marc Mandic said he had a 12 week old male breeding for him on Reptile Radio, and I think Jas Balls had some males breeding at about 250g if I remember right. I know BT has had a lot of success with young males, too.
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12 weeks old. :O
That is just crazy!
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The smallest one I have seen really go for it is about 450-500, but I have only tried to breed two males :)
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I find it helps to show young ball males old baywatch videos; this usually gets them going earlier.
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O_o @ Brandon lol . I would highly suggest waiting until around 500 grams as I have heard of several cases of stressing the males out big time. And I would never want to take a chance hurting my males, you kinda will need them in the future =P
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you need an option past 600g. My smallest was 800+g. I thought you were not supposed to breed them b4 this size.
If people have had this much success I may try my mojave with my norm girl. He will be a year old by june so maybe by spring he will be good to go.:please:
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Been there, done that..... I've bred plenty of males that were around the 300g range and they bred just fine. However, I've also had problems with a few of them shutting down on feeding. It's not uncommon for breeding males to forget all about food and it's not a problem with larger males, but with 300 gram males there isn't a lot of wiggle room in case they start losing weight. Although I haven't lost any yet, I have heard of other people losing males that they started breeding very small. However there is one that I had to start force feeding when he started rapidly losing weight and was looking very thin and getting weak. These days I'd rather wait at least until the next season. I guess I'm just not in that big of a hurry anymore.