Breeding stops aggressiveness?

[SnakeAngel]

I have a pastel orange ghost female who I have been breeding to pastel spark yellow belly male who is very aggressive. Ever since he started to breed with this female, he has become a sweet, great snake! He has also started taking F/T rats... he was on live ASFs. This has been since January. I figured once I stopped introducing him to the female he would become aggressive again, but it has been over a month and he is still a sweet heart.

I am not complaining of course, but is this normal? Has anyone had behavioral changes after breeding ball pythons?

[JoshSloane]

It very well could be that breeding has helped with his aggressiveness. It is widely known that many python species have temporal variations in aggressiveness within males, usually coinciding with breeding cycles.

[Slim]

Could be, but it's also well known that BP's tend to mellow a bit with age and size. The F/T thing is interesting

[Hannahshissyfix]

Well, we all can get a bit frustrated and cranky if it's been a while..

[SnakeAngel]

Well, we all can get a bit frustrated and cranky if it's been a while..

Hahahaha... too true! He is (or was) a virgin... I just have never heard of this behavior change before regarding circumstances.

[OhhWatALoser]

I've never notice much change with my ball pythons, given 90% of them have the nearly exact same docile personality. However my male carpet python goes through changes every single breeding season. He was a typical carpet baby and grew out of his bitey stages, when he ate you just stuck the f/t rat in front of him and he began to eat it, no constricting.

Then first breeding season he became an angry snake. striking at the glass, it was a scary year.
2nd breeding season comes around, he calms down, eats like a normal snake (constricting f/t then eating), was very handable for a year.
3rd season, became very cage aggressive, but still ate normal.
4th season, docile as can be, back to putting food in front of him and not constricting.
This year was back to cage aggressive and eating normal.
I just started pairing a few weeks ago, so we shall see what hes going to be like this year.