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What's the smallest male you've ever bred?

hypnoctopus

hypnoctopus

Olivia Barron
Since males don't have to grow the eggs or go through the process of laying them, the breeding guidelines are less strict about what size your male should be. But I assume that males must go through some sort of puberty where they become interested in breeding. And I assume that their hemipenes have to grow big enough to actually be able to lock with a female. So what's the smallest male you've successfully bred?
 
I'm sure there are people that have gone smaller as I've heard of one under a year old. For me it was an 18 month old (2019) this year that sired 2 clutches. I'd say he is 130-150 grams. I have another male (2018) that has bred the past two years and is on hoppers at just under 200g. When they are younger can take them a while to figure out what to do.
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I think 200 is around the smallest I've bred a male, too. Just for curiosity, I put a very little guy (like 35 grams) in with an adult female (very closely supervised!) just to see if he would act any differently, and nope, definitely no breeding instinct at that size!
 
I also have successfully bred a young male at 18 months with ~150grams to a big healthy female and she laid a clutch of 16 fertile eggs. All had hatched, so he really did the job.

It was funny to watch him trying to reach her head and the tail at once. :D

Cheers
Seriva
 
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