Smallest breeding male?

Since females tend to be bred at around 1500g, I would try to make my males around 500 just for size comparison, I wouldn't want my male to be too small when breeding with a larger female.

My male fire diddn't show any interest untill he hit 1200g. This year is his first season, but he's goin and goin! He is now 1450g and has bred to three girls, ranging from 1700g to 2500g

We have a male Cinnie that is producing plugs and he is about 330-350g

I really need males like yours . . . :O

I have an 800g lesser platy that started producing plugs 400g and a 618g Carmel male that's a proven breeder. I give the smaller boys a good break in between. And I also don't give them too may girls. Like the Carmel male was given 1 female. And the lesser platty has 2 girls. My lesser platy is a bomb eater as well so he's been doing really good eating tho the season. Where as the Carmel male has been really picky for me since I got him so I'm trying to keep him on the food to get the weight. But I've seen successful locks and the Carmel proved out with a full successful clutch. He's a bit older than the lesser this will be the lessers first yr.

I've got a 450 gram 2009 pied male here that's producing plugs, but he's just SO small. He's got plenty of length? But he's skinny--he only eats hoppers and small mice, and only every other week. I've got two 2010 females that are fatter than he is.

So I'm waiting until next year to use him. Hopefully he'll put on some weight before then

Also, I dunno. I do still house some of my ball pythons together, so I'm a fine one to talk, but I kind of get paranoid about pairing two snakes when one of them is small enough to fit neatly inside of the other. What if she wants a post-coital snack? What if she accidentally yawns and swallows him? Yikes.

Last year was cycling a 700 gram Cinnamon and 270 gram Fire with a Female blond pastel. Got 6 eggs and out of those eggs came 0.1 blond pastel, 1.1 fires, 0.2 normals, and the twins 2.0 firefly. Not a single Cinnamon or pewter, so I think the smaller little dude did all the work.

Good lord 270g! That's one powerful little man. I was a little wary on my lesser platy. He seems to be quite the stud though.

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Originally Posted by Gloryhound

Last year was cycling a 700 gram Cinnamon and 270 gram Fire with a Female blond pastel. Got 6 eggs and out of those eggs came 0.1 blond pastel, 1.1 fires, 0.2 normals, and the twins 2.0 firefly. Not a single Cinnamon or pewter, so I think the smaller little dude did all the work.

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Wow. Wishing you many more. 270g smallest I've heard.