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kierancj

kierancj

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Hello
Currently i have 2x 1 year corns + 1 x 2.5 year corn all males in one 4ft tank they seems to get on great is this ok????


I have a 3 year female in a seperate tank... and i am wanted to start to breed ....
shall i-
1. Move male in with female permantly
2. Move male in with female for 1 hour aday?
3. seperate all snakes????
thanks
 
Do a search on Co-habitation. Most of us feel that it is a bad idea and not worth the risks. Our advice is 1 snake per viv, period. A few will co-hab for intentional breeding, others will only introduce the snakes under controlled circumstances with continual observation.

If you choose to continue to co-hab and something goes wrong, don't be surprised if people are *extremely* unsympathetic.
 
I have done "overnighters" with couples during the breeding season, but otherwise I won't cohab.

I had to cohab once due to a rack malfunctioning (and nearly setting a fire in my house). The short cohab indirectly resulted in the death of one of my favorite snakes.
 
Also, just how sure are you that the males are all males? We've had several snakes on here sold as one thing and had to have a name change as their sex changed.
 
but surely after a year they would of shown signs of being females
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What sort of signs were you thinking of?

It's very difficult to tell gender in Corns - no method of sexing is 100% reliable. Even probing or popping can be misleading.

The only sure-fire way of telling a Corn's gender is if it lays eggs - then it's a female!

Apart from that, even th most hardened old campaigner can be caught out. So you can see that in your position, it's better to be safe than sorry.
 
Trouble is, if you do have a female, they can lay from roughly about eighteen months old, but it's not safe for them until they're around three (guidelines are three years old, there feet long and 300g weight). It's the same principle as humans - some twelve year old girls are capable of having babies, but it isn't a good idea as it can cause physical harm.

I know you're hoping that someone will pop up and say it's OK to keep your group together, but really, it carries so many risks.
 
Good on you. I think you've done the right thing - you'll have healthier less stressed Corns as a result.
 
kierancj said:
but surely after a year they would of shown signs of being females
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The snake that I co-habbed that died was sexed as a male. When my rack unit malfunctioned and I was left with no choice I co-habbed "him" in with a known male. "He" was 7 years old, I had only tried to breed him once years before but he showed no interest. At that time I thought he was too young. I had owned this snake for 7 years, and thought I had a male the whole time!
As a result of co-habbing, "he" became eggbound and died. One of her surviving hatchlings is my avatar now. It still hurts when I think about the one I lost, and I wish it never happened. But I wouldn't trade her 3 surviving sons for ANYTHING!
 
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