I'm new here and am very excited about our first year breeding. We bred beardies once before and we had 19 eggs and 18 hatched and boy werethey some lively little guys! And oh sooo cute. I'll try to keep the typos to a minimum but it's hard when you have a snake trying to assist. She's very demanding, what can I say?

Anyway, we started cooling them in November and in late November/early December began pairing them every 3 days; 3 days on 3 days off. If we saw them copulating than they were separated sooner and given their 3 day break. We have a total of 4 females breeding (all normals).

We bred one of our normal girls to two different snakes. First she was bred to our Spider. This was maybe two or three times in early December before the Lesser would mate. Once he began breeding, we had bought a proven male bee (figured he would produce the Spiders and he doesn't have wobble) we began breeding her to the Lesser. I have heard the female can retain sperm, but how often does that happen? Also, is it really a chance she would produce, normals, Lesser Platinum's, & Spiders since she bred to both? I've heard of this happening but never knew if there was any truth behind it. Finally, since the only male we own that's proven, should we cover the females with each of our virgin snakes a few times than follow it up with the Bee? They are all swelling up, but I'm not seeing definition between bumps so I'm not 100% sure they're ovulating.

I'm just hoping to produce some Cinnamons/Black Pastels (not sure which he is, was sold to us as a Cinnamon but I've heard they're the same thing, if someone would be ever so kind to clarify that for me I would be very appreciative), Lesser Platinum's, Bumble Bee (HAH! I know), and Spiders/Pastels. I love my Pastels and Bumble Bees! Next year I have my fingers crossed for a Lesser Bee/Pastel, Piebald, & a Humble Bee. =) My boyfriend doesn't want to even think about next year but I feel it requires lots of meticulous planning. I just wanted to share as I don't really have any snake people that I talk to regularly and am very excited! Any advice or comments are very helpful! Thanks for reading and sorry for there being so much!