yea he is a 2010 proven male... i honestly think that I had been feeding him too much and maybe he is a little lazy...after reading about males being lazy sometimes, I have cut him back to only small rats...that could also be a possible reason he is not breeding b/c I didn't feed him as much last fall as I had the previous year when he did successfully breed, as I was trying to let him lose a little weight
I will try the trick when the barometric pressure changes and see if that does anything.