Smallest breeding male?

[Turbo Serpent]

I know a lot of people attempt to breed some of their males when they are ready and others wait for certain weights to be reached.

When they are ready they are ready...

So what is your smallest breeding male?

[Nagini88]

my cinnimon started breeding at 350 grams but most of mine didnt show interest untill 500ish grams

[Turbo Serpent]

My male YB was a whopping 360g when he made his first lock to my 1700g normal.

[PythonWallace]

My YB male was in the 375g range when he started locking up.

Marc Mandic said he had a 12 week old male breeding for him on Reptile Radio, and I think Jas Balls had some males breeding at about 250g if I remember right. I know BT has had a lot of success with young males, too.

[Turbo Serpent]

12 weeks old.

That is just crazy!

[TheOtherLeadingBrand]

The smallest one I have seen really go for it is about 450-500, but I have only tried to breed two males

[BPHERP]

I find it helps to show young ball males old baywatch videos; this usually gets them going earlier.

[SNIKTTIME]

O_o @ Brandon lol . I would highly suggest waiting until around 500 grams as I have heard of several cases of stressing the males out big time. And I would never want to take a chance hurting my males, you kinda will need them in the future =P

[Kryptonian]

you need an option past 600g. My smallest was 800+g. I thought you were not supposed to breed them b4 this size.
If people have had this much success I may try my mojave with my norm girl. He will be a year old by june so maybe by spring he will be good to go.

[MarkS]

Been there, done that..... I've bred plenty of males that were around the 300g range and they bred just fine. However, I've also had problems with a few of them shutting down on feeding. It's not uncommon for breeding males to forget all about food and it's not a problem with larger males, but with 300 gram males there isn't a lot of wiggle room in case they start losing weight. Although I haven't lost any yet, I have heard of other people losing males that they started breeding very small. However there is one that I had to start force feeding when he started rapidly losing weight and was looking very thin and getting weak. These days I'd rather wait at least until the next season. I guess I'm just not in that big of a hurry anymore.