Okay you know you are a ball python freak addict dweeb when you stumble out of bed at 5:30 in the morning to go check your paired snakes BEFORE you even put your beloved coffee on! LOL

Well they aren't locked this morning. Riordan is on top of Dori and their tails are close by not locked yet. I'm assuming this is a nice progress. Hopefully Riordan will figure out what girl snakes are all about. We're going to leave him in for three days, then out for four for a feeding attempt and a rest, then back in for three and so forth.

Which leads to my next question actually. We'd like to use Riordan on three females total this season (Dori, Orlah and Brannagh). I was thinking of putting him this week with Dori, next week with Orlah, the week after with Brannagh, then back again with Dori and so forth. Will this work okay? Three days with each female, four off to rest each week and a full week off after one full rotation (so basically three weeks of the breeding cycles then a full week off each month). I'm just concerned that this allows him enough access to each female but also that we allow him proper resting time since he's a first time breeder.

I'd love some opinions from breeders who use one male on multiple females.