Putting females into male tub

[hungba]

Most people put their males into the females tubs. Reasons I've read was that females need to be "comfortable" and you don't want to move them so much as they are the ones to lay the eggs. Does anyone have any proof that there is any benefit to this vs. the other way around?

A few years ago I first started breeding, and I was not confident with my experience so just did what everyone else said to do. That year I had two females that would violently fight and wrestle any male put in with them. I posted and asked and the response was always to re sex the female as it must be a male. I would resex and find female and people just told me to resex again ad infinitum.

Now I KNOW they are females, as they laid eggs last year. The trick was to put the female into the male tub instead. I suspect that it was some kind of territorial behaviour on the part of the female.

Since then I have been putting those particular females into the male tubs, and for others I jusy do it the traditional way, which works most of the time. Now, I have many more breeding sized females this year. One more has started fighting the male, and I plan on putting her in the make tub to try. That got me thinking. Why not just put ALL females into male tubs?

It would be easier for me, as I keep breeding tubs on paper during season and others with aspen. So I could have only the male tubs switch to paper instead of all the females. Plus I don't need to keep track of which females are the territorial ones.

So anyone has real results or proof that it is better to put the male into the female tubs instead?

[Eric Alan]

More than a few of my females simply wouldn't fit into my male's tubs. I'm sure I'm not the only one that this applies to.

Having said that, I'm also a firm believer in finding a successful means to an end. If this works for you, it may work for others as well!

[hungba]

UPDATE: Ok now this is getting weird. I just went to change some female tubs to aspen. The female tubs are different than make tubs, different rack. They are made of PE, whereas my male rack is made of PP. After giving the tub a good clean in the shower and wipe down, I put in aspen, and it flew up to the sides of the tub! I think something caused the tub to get static electricity. I would remove the aspen from the walls, put it on yhe floor, and shake the tub and the aspen would fly back on the walls like some kids science experiment! WTH?

BTW Thanks for your reply Eric

[Eric Alan]

It's winter. In most areas of the country that means that the heat is on. When the heat goes on, the humidity goes down, which results in an increase in static electricity. Pretty straight forward...

[JMinILM]

His place or hers, I guess it doesn't really matter as long as the deed gets done.

[Eric Alan]

His place or hers, I guess it doesn't really matter as long as the deed gets done.

Family:
0.1 Wife
3.1 Kids

Nothing like backing up your thesis with proven results!

[hungba]

Not humidity. I thought so too, but it is currently at 70%. Also the pp clear tubs are not affected, only the opaque pe racks.

[Eric Alan]

Not humidity. I thought so too, but it is currently at 70%. Also the pp clear tubs are not affected, only the opaque pe racks.

You said it happened after you just got done cleaning them while you were putting new bedding in. While it may be 70% normally, it was well below that in a completely clean, dry tub when you saw the static cling.

[hungba]

The whole room is 70. Not sure how many hours it has beem, it is still clinging now.