Ok, could someone explain whats going on?

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Originally Posted by DannyHog

I have two ball pythons that have been housed together for years, a male and a female..........what may have happened to cause them to start breeding?

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Ever see the movie The Blue Lagoon? Nature will always take it's course.

honestly im smacking myself for not seeing this coming, but if it turns out she's gravid it might be nice to raise the eggs if they are fertile, and I shouldn't have a problem finding homes for the hatchlings, but lets not count our pythons before they hatch.

I was just curious, your signature says you have 3 ball pythons. Why did you house 2 together and 1 separately?

There are a number of things that can go wrong if you house multiple BPs together. The only real time to put 2 BPs together is for breeding.

Either way, I wish you luck!

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Originally Posted by DannyHog

true but it does reinforce the signs I got by the probe method.

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Probing or popping is all you need in BPs because the other methods don't help with this species. I have females who's tails look like males and have huge spurs and males with short tails and almost no spurs. In other species it can be determined fairly easily by looking, but not BPs :)

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Originally Posted by satomi325

I was just curious, your signature says you have 3 ball pythons. Why did you house 2 together and 1 separately?

There are a number of things that can go wrong if you house multiple BPs together. The only real time to put 2 BPs together is for breeding.

Either way, I wish you luck!

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The two together had been together for years and Im not sure why I never thought to separate them, the third was given to me by a good friend and mentor when he was leaving the area and couldn't take him along.

Actually, if they did lock, you could be looking at eggs in as little as 8 weeks.