Introduction

[Amy05]

So now i have the future breeding pair, and i wanted to know when to introduce them. Should they meet now before they breed in the future (they wont be breeding for a few years, they are '06s)? Or do you just put them together when you want them to breed?

Thanks a bunch!

[kavmon]

wait until they are mature and big enough.



vaughn

[LadyOhh]

Agreed!

You don't need to put them thru the stress of putting them together if they are not going to breed.

[Nate]

yep believe it or not i had a pair together since i bought them....never bothered to separate them. they never bred. this was a few years ago with my first batch of ball pythons...i had to sell them

anyway, this year i find out she's popping out nice clutches of eggs!

don't put them together...

give them time and put some weight on otherwise they'll just be roommates and not lovers

[Griggs2121]

don't put them together...

they'll just be roommates and not lovers

LOL

[Rapture]

I'm not sure what you're asking exactly... are you wanting them to have a "meet" outside of their enclosures, or are you wanting to keep them in the same enclosure long term?

give them time and put some weight on otherwise they'll just be roommates and not lovers

This was not the case with mine. While I am not advising that you put them together, I got my first pair of BP's from a friend who was moving. They came to me in the same enclosure and I kept them in the same enclosure. This was before I knew what sort of problems could arise from this practice... Anyway, I later had them sexed and they turned out to be a sexual pair, and they bred through the season. I removed the male as soon as I could visually assume the female would lay soon per the advice of a friend, and soon after she laid 5 eggs.

Since then, I have learned a lot from this forum, and the pair now stay separated, each in their own enclosure, as do all the rest of my snakes.

[Amy05]

i think i was semi misunderstood, i don't mean keeping them together, i won't do that, i was talking about when i take them out to hold them, taking them both out and letting them hang out together for like 15 minutes, and them going back to their seperate tanks.

Thanks

[Nate]

aaahhhhh ok now your question makes a lot of sence since you put it in that context. And honestly, i don't know. I see pix of an adult female vs. a baby male for comparison...excellent picture, and i doubt anything horrible happened. yours are just babies...i'm sure it wouldn't hurt! i could be wrong

[Freakie_frog]

Kinda like a date prior to the deed.. LOL No it not needed they will do just fine having never seen each other before.

[JLC]

i think i was semi misunderstood, i don't mean keeping them together, i won't do that, i was talking about when i take them out to hold them, taking them both out and letting them hang out together for like 15 minutes, and them going back to their seperate tanks.

Thanks

There's nothing wrong with letting two BP's be together...folks take pictures of them together all the time. However, I see no benefit in the practice with regards to future mating potential.

My main concern at this point would be quarantine. You got the animals from two different sources, and so they should be kept completely separate from each other for a few months.