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Driving Me Batty...

Aozora

Aozora

Blue Sky Reptiles
I'm trying to breed a pair of snakes I've raised from hatchlings, and they're driving me batty. Specifically, the female is. She tries to run from the male every time, lots of tail whipping and flailing. The male is very interested, but he seems to be more into her shed skin than her.

She hasn't laid eggs before so I'm still not 100% she's a she, but the male drops sperm plugs and twitches like mad at her. Unless he's gay, I don't think he would do that for a male snake. I don't see any fighting behaviors, either, just her trying to get away from him.

I put them together overnight once, and when I came back in the morning both were curled on the opposite sides of the bin looking as pissed off as a snake can look.

Arrrrrgh. I thought this kind of thing was instinctual?
 
Males will try to mate with another male or even themselves if that's their only choice.
I had 2 male (yes 100% positively males ) Iguanas lockup twice!
Their timing for being "in the mood" isn't always the same either. If she is a she then the time isn't right for her or she just doesn't like him LOL. A week or two from now it could be the right time or she will be "in the mood" and he won't.
Snakes are gonna snake and sometimes NOT LOL...........

As suggested by Shiari, try to verify the sex of the female.
Good luck :)
 
I put my confirmed female with this female and witnessed a rousing round of indifference. My female wasn't trying to escape and tail whipping the confirmed female, at least.

I think she just doesn't like my male.

Should I give up on this pair for the year? I have other conditioned females I could breed.
 
My female wanted nothing to do with my male for 2 months. He had to chase her for what seemed like an hour and hold her down the first time they locked. The second time took a little less as I had them both out for a stretch and he decided to just climb up on top of her.. rushed them back into the snake room into his tub and she just gave me that evil corn stare.. second lock. It'll happen. It just has to be the right timing.
 
She just isn't ready. I'd keep trying once a week, for 30 minutes. Also- if you get a nice storm- try then. Also- keep the shed and mist it and the breeding bin before putting them in.
 
It's supposed to storm all day today, so I've put them together again. We'll see what happens.

It's just my luck that a kind of snake that breeds easily in captivity won't breed for me. I have the oddest luck about critters breeding. I have a kind of fish that doesn't ever breed in captivity and they've spawned 3x for me, and yet my corns and my rabbits are all, "Ewww no."
 
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