My female normal, Akina, is eating every 5 days and gaining weight. She is well over 1800g now. I have two possible mates for her this season, now. My pastel male has decided he doesn't want to eat. He has gone off feed for the past 3 weeks. He is around 330g. My het. pied male is an eating machine, and is about to hit 500g. My spider male has just decided to start eating, and has eaten the past two weeks, but he has not even hit 400g yet. I've heard the rock bottom minimum for breeding a male is 400g, ideal is 600+ or 800g. I don't think I'll be doing the cooling. Instead I'll be going along with the pressure. How soon do you think I should start introducing the pair? I plan on only breeding one male to her. Either Xefaud, my het pied, or my spider, Auxy. If I breed the het pied, then I get 50% possible het pieds, and I would keep all the females for future breeding.

So how does breeding according to the pressure work? I will be checking the weather every day from now on to watch for low pressure. What is considered low pressure. They list the current pressure on the weather report. Right now it is 30.04. Is this considered high or low? We have storms predicted for tomorrow.

How soon can I start putting the male in with the female. Should I wait till one of them is 600g?