Smallest breeding male?

i have plenty of males breeding, but the 2 that count are my het russo white diamond at 430 and mojave at 500, neither of them are locking with my female 2300g =[ no bels this year, im working on the savannah though (mojoxcinny)

right now my smallest is just over 500 grams and has locked 3 times already. My other males are 750 grams and just over 1000. The only ones that havent locked yet with females are the 1000 gram mojave and the 420 gram black back cinny. But then again those last two were just paired up. So ill give them a few days.

Well I can finally comment! My male just locked for me a couple days ago. He's 450 grams on a good day. We'll see if he makes any pretty babies! Since he's so small I haven't been putting him with the female very often. I've been doing three days on, two weeks off. I've been pairing since November fist and this was his first lock.

My lemon blast is around 475 and just locked up with my spider female for the first time last night, hes back locked with her again right now :rolleyes:. Its his 3rd 3 day stretch with her. hes been going in three days on one off, and taking a medium mouse everytime he gets a break so no breeding=feeding issues here :gj:

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Originally Posted by Turbo Serpent

12 weeks old. :O

That is just crazy!

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Yeah. Lucky stiffs! I have a pastel male that would refuse to even LOOK at a female till this year, at 1500+g!:weirdface Geez, what a lazy bum. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by 4theSNAKElady

Yeah. Lucky stiffs! I have a pastel male that would refuse to even LOOK at a female till this year, at 1500+g!:weirdface Geez, what a lazy bum. :rolleyes:

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You want mine? Zoltan would breed a paper towel tube if I let him. :)

For those breeding at 400g. (and I have but did not get babes due to the stress of the fire last year, the female reabsorbed)

I would be interested though in seeing people's success rates with young males. They may be breeding at 400g, but are you getting babes and at what ratio? I.e. are they fertilizing the entire clutch, are you getting more slugs, are you pairing more often...

Enquiring minds want to know.

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Originally Posted by Bruce Whitehead

You want mine? Zoltan would breed a paper towel tube if I let him. :)

For those breeding at 400g. (and I have but did not get babes due to the stress of the fire last year, the female reabsorbed)

I would be interested though in seeing people's success rates with young males. They may be breeding at 400g, but are you getting babes and at what ratio? I.e. are they fertilizing the entire clutch, are you getting more slugs, are you pairing more often...

Enquiring minds want to know.

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Those are some good questions, i would believe that to hope to get the same success rate you would have to pair more. my male pastel is around 800 grams and his sperm plugs are far bigger than my lemonblasts. If he knocks my spider up I will be able to answer that question, atleast for this breeding. I would also be more inclined to reduce the number of females a smaller male is paired with to increase chances.

My pastel male bred 3 girls this year and he was 290 grams at the time and produced 12 pastels out of 18 eggs. 2 clutches of 7 and one of 4

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Originally Posted by Bruce Whitehead

You want mine? Zoltan would breed a paper towel tube if I let him. :)

For those breeding at 400g. (and I have but did not get babes due to the stress of the fire last year, the female reabsorbed)

I would be interested though in seeing people's success rates with young males. They may be breeding at 400g, but are you getting babes and at what ratio? I.e. are they fertilizing the entire clutch, are you getting more slugs, are you pairing more often...

Enquiring minds want to know.

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BG thinks a lot of people are mistaking "locks" for "wraps". Plenty of young males will "wrap". BG sees it all the time, but most small males don't have the equipment to do the job yet. Some do though, but there is a big difference between a "lock" and a tail "wrap".

I have had a few young/small males breed successfully -- but more that have NOT. ;)

In 08, I had a 450 gram 6 month old CH project male breed 4 BIG normal girls to produce clutches of 6, 5, 7, 8 eggs -- to prove his gene dominant. He is still alive and well. In fact, he is breeding the best feeding of his 08 daughters to prove a super this year.

It has been my "limited experience" that about 40% of young males breed like a ROCKSTAR and 60% DO NOT!! :colbert:

There are very few the "dabble" with the girls -- no in between. :cool: