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not breeding a frustrated corn

ladydragon

ladydragon

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Okay, Phantom, my 7 year old ghost corn is still not really interested in eating (will take hoppers two at a time if offered, but wont take full sized mice at the moment), is still cruising his tank all day and all night long in search of that elusive female and when i do take him out to hold him, he rubs his head all over my arm and hands and wraps his tail around whatever he can and pushes with it. Guess he thinks he can mate with my hands. :shrugs: my question is, if I do not breed him, how stressful is it for him or more of a frustration than anything else. I dont want him stressed any more than he obviously is, is there anything I can do or do I just need to wait this out. All these years of owning him and this is the first year I'm going through behaviour like this from him, so I'm a bit clueless. I've been reading whatever I can and I think he is still "in season" and just wants to mate. any advice is greatly appreciated. thanx.
 
I have a couple of batchelors and they can be a bit of a handful this time of year.

The best thing you can do is make sure there's nothing about his tank/viv that he can hurt himeslf on. One of mine has injured himself spectacularly, trying to escape from a viv by squeezing between the overlap of the sliding glass doors. Adult Corn... two or three millimetre gap... multiple broken ribs. Yuk! Sometimes that mating urge really can over-ride even the basic rules of self-preservation.

I think my nutter is an extreme example though. I suspect the worst you'll see is a rubbed nose, where he might be looking for a way out to seek a female. That should be easy enough to treat if it does happen.

Stress is a relatively human way of viewing it - it's just a natural instinct and behaviour. Even in the wild, they could search all season and not come across a suitable female. It's just part of their make-up and males are designed to cope with it.

As for how long it lasts, well it could be a few weeks or a few months. Unfortunately it's an individual thing - console yourself that at least you'll know this time next year! Things should have calmed down by July/August, with any luck.
 
bitsy said:
Stress is a relatively human way of viewing it - it's just a natural instinct and behaviour. Even in the wild, they could search all season and not come across a suitable female. It's just part of their make-up and males are designed to cope with it.
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yeah i guess so.. still makes me feel bad he cant get any action.

bitsy said:
As for how long it lasts, well it could be a few weeks or a few months. Unfortunately it's an individual thing - console yourself that at least you'll know this time next year! Things should have calmed down by July/August, with any luck.
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:eek1: good grief.. man Im making sure I dont brumate him this winter, (he accidently brumated this past winter when the power cord to his UTH dislodged enough to turn off). thanx for the input.
 
Im making sure I dont brumate him this winter
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I hate to break the news, but I never brumate my Corns and I'm afraid the males are still rampant!

The idea that they don't breed if they haven't been brumated is sadly wrong. Brumating seems to improve fertility and clutch size, but they're still pretty productive, even if you don't brumate.
 
the only reason I said that is because this past winter was the first time that he was brumated and he never acted like this in the spring EVER! guess he never felt the urge until now.. late bloomer perhaps LOL
 
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