oh great here we go.

[4theSNAKElady]

Why were they put together in the first place if the female is so underweight? Just askin....

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[bcr229]

Ugh! Well, what's done is done, and this genie isn't going back into the bottle. I read your other thread about your friend neglecting the female but didn't realize that she had lost half her weight during the ordeal. I would just monitor her, hope that she didn't pick up any illness the male may be carrying, and keep my fingers crossed that she doesn't ovy until she gains a few hundred more grams.

I am confused on the QT though - where are the male and female located in the house so that your husband found it more convenient to put them together rather than around his neck or into another tub temporarily while he cleaned the male's enclosure? And why did he leave him with her?

[Phantomtip]

He's not a snake person. He said he used both my snake hooks to move him. I did ask him why he did it and he said it was best idea in his mind. I also told him that her becoming pregnant at this size is very dangerous for her. He said oh I didn't know she could. By the way those snake hooks are for shooing wild nonvenomous snakes under my house and then sterilized. He thinks all snakes are bad and dangerous. He is also the man I had to nuter his dog for because he couldn't stand the thought of having his male parts cut off. That was before we got married. He doesn't know anything about reptiles at all except I like them. I will start feeding her like crazy as a just in case she does become gravid. I will also get an incubator as a back up incase there are eggs that aren't "slugs". I've raised chicks from the egg so I need to start researching on what to do as a precaution. Her temps have gone down a couple degrees with the onset of cooler temps here but not out of the upper 80s. So do yall think she will produce eggs? I really hope not. My male was in a back room and female is in the living room. Total opposite ends of the house. As I said he's not a snake person and WILL NOT touch them with his bare hands. I had the gloves out for the dirty work of cleaning poop.

[thejenius77]

Why were they put together in the first place if the female is so underweight? Just askin....

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Her husband put the male with the female because the male's husbandry was off. Not realizing the potential problem.

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[Phantomtip]

I was working on his husbandry when I got sick for a couple days. My female had just eaten Saturday afternoon also. When a cold lays me low it does so in a bad way that's why I didn't know he was in with her. I don't like using paper as a substrate because it doesn't allow for me to have good humidity but since I was QTing him thats what I use. After I've had him a month he will go onto coco husk. The person I got him from had no other snakes, or reptiles and had good husbandry on him. They said he never showed signs of sickness or mites but me being a paranoid person wants to make sure he didn't give anything to my girl even from adjacent enclosures. I will be watching them both like a hawk. Both for sickness and her for eggs.

[Mr. Misha]

Her husband put the male with the female because the male's husbandry was off. Not realizing the potential problem.

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It's not that he didn't realize it, he didn't know. The OP said that her husband doesn't even touch snakes with his bare hands so I'm sure he's not very interested in knowing about them (which is perfectly fine IMO).

It seems like the it's the OP's hobby and the husband is putting up with it and merely trying to help his wife.

Anyway, I would prepare to be a mommy just in case your bp does get preggers but I really don't think that one encounter will do it.

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[Phantomtip]

Since I only saw the one lock last night and they've been together since Sunday they might have locked more than Ive seen. Time to look at incubators, and feed the tar out of her to hopefully get more weight on her for possible pregnancy. How often should I start feeding her as a precaution? I usually feed a largish small rat every 7 days. I am about to move her up to a smallish medium.

[thejenius77]

Not realizing....not knowing.....Same thing.

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[Bluebonnet Herp]

I've been under the weather and checked them last night only to see my new boy yellow belly "locked" with my 4 yr old normal girl.

He is a little under 500g and she is a little under 800g.

I just weighed her this morning. No typo. She's about 4 ft long. The people who were taking care of her didn't feed her appropriately. I have been getting her back up to weight since I got her back. She was well over 1500g when I had to leave her almost 2 yrs ago.

[Phantomtip]

Yes he indulges me in what he thinks is a freaky hobby. He was trying to help me when I was feeling sick. He didn't knowmthat 1 was male and 1 was female and not tto put them together. To him they are nasty. If it doesn't have fur its not a pet. To me they are pets the same as our dog and cat. He didn't like cats either when we first got married lol. Now he cuddles and sleeps with one every night. Snakes are still a no go to him. So it's really not his fault that he didn't know. Please don't think he's a jerk. He's a wonderful husband and father to me, our sons and 4 legged kiddos. He's just not into reptiles.