Below 800grm Male Bred ? Females Succesfully?

I was just wondering how many females younger males (Under 800grms) have successfully bred? Succesfully being that the female layed a clutch of let's go with 80% viable eggs that hatched out. Also if you ended up pulling the male to keep his health in check.

Ive had males as small as 500grams produce for me.

realy depends on the male.. not just size, but how he eats and acts...

As long as he has sperm plugs, he should be able to breed successfully!

Yeah as long as he keeps eating, put him in whenever he shows interest and sperm plugs.

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Originally Posted by steveboos

Yeah as long as he keeps eating, put him in whenever he shows interest and sperm plugs.

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I was just trying to get an average of how many females a young male could possible breed. I figure a younger male wouldn't be able to handle as many girls as a more mature one. I know one of the males I'm getting for my girls but was wondering if I should get a back up. Just thinking ahead and planning out my budget.

iv got a ~475 gram male that's locked up 2 times already to 1 female, he has plugs

and a ~510g male that's popping plugs and locked up once for sure but most likely twice to a different female.

no eggs yet, but they locked up the first time we paired them

both of these guys have 4 girls planned to each of them, last year we bred a >1000g male to 8 females. i think 6 of em laid eggs? but the other two weren't his fault, they just didn't want to lay lol

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Originally Posted by BAMReptiles

iv got a ~475 gram male that's locked up 2 times already to 1 female, he has plugs

and a ~510g male that's popping plugs and locked up once for sure but most likely twice to a different female.

no eggs yet, but they locked up the first time we paired them

both of these guys have 4 girls planned to each of them, last year we bred a >1000g male to 8 females. i think 6 of em laid eggs? but the other two weren't his fault, they just didn't want to lay lol

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You will have to let me know the outcome of these two males then my females are far from being ready. I am the kind that plans, plans some more and then at the last minute when I go to make the purchase of the male I will probably end up with two just to make sure he could handle that many. That is probably the way I will go just so I end up with different hold backs, which the wife will love me for lol.

will do, i keep facebook updated decently, you can follow us on there if you wish. just search for BAM Reptiles.

ive got pics of the bp locked up from earlier today, or well almost locked up at the least, i checked on him a bit after i took the pics and it was an even better lock.

I would get two males! If one doesn't do the deed, the other one should. It just betters your odds!

I have a 200 gram male het pied producing plugs right now, although his female het pied is nowhere near being up to size yet.

We had one of our boys go to town at 223 grams. He was a male fire. We cycled him in with a larger experienced male breeder and he is the one that came through. Paired up with a Blond Pastel. 5 eggs total 6 babies (one pair of twins) The twins look to be 2.0 FireFly's (but we are still waiting to make the final call) 0.1 blond pastel, 1.1 fires, and 0.1 normals.

Generally speaking we like to mix younger (less than a year old) Co-doms and doms in with proven breeders a year before they will breed to give them some exposure. Most of the time they don't do much, but sometimes they do!

Other times we have trouble getting a 500+ gram male to do anything with a female. Take the same male and put it with a different female and it becomes a stud muffin all of the sudden!

I voted for six, because my option wasn't up there. This past season I had a 350 gram male breed 8 females and we got 7 viable clutches from him. I think only 3 eggs total went bad from his breedings. It can be done, but it does require closer monitoring of the male's health, and he won't be able to copulate each female as often, but if he is introduced at key points during follicular development, it can be done.

p.s. I have heard of more clutches coming from a male if an ultrasound is used, and the male copulates only once with each female.