Now I know this question has been asked a lot, and I fully understand the textbook answer, but I want to go further in depth; I have been thinking about the locks I've seen with my snakes this year with perfect, textbook tail wraps, hanging close together, etc., but I've recently wondered how I could know whether they were actually copulating. As in, maybe they're just sitting in perfect formation without actual copulation, just wrapped up. My question for experienced breeders is how do you know? Besides lifting up a tail which is extremely dangerous! I would think that it'd be talked about, but I haven't really seen or heard of it, just is this a lock stuff... And the response being look at how the tails are wrapped, that's a lock. So I hope to go a little more in depth with this.

Also, while I'm here, I've been wondering about a pair of mine locking up... I saw two lock ups a month and a half ago (hopefully were copulating as seen above) and I paired them again three weeks later and got a bunch of tracks but no seen locks, but they were always close together, and I viewed it as a maybe lock up so I paired again in two weeks (would've been one but a shed was in place), and Ive just seen a bunch of tracks no locks yet. Is that enough to believe there was a lock? I know it shows interest but there must've been a lot of interest by the number of tracks lol . I'm just wondering about this, as far as when you guys count it. Thank you all very much!