Good question! Since this is the first year for me with actual breeding, I can't offer
a lot of insight, but here are some (truncated) records from one of the breedings I did this year:
1.0
het x
0.1 albino
11/5/02 - put male in with female
11/11/02 - first courting witnesed
12/4/02 - first time seen 'squeezing' female in 15-20 second intervals
12/5/02 - female shed
12/16/02 - female stretched out with subtle curves (believe pre-ov swell)
12/18/02 - male seen heavy courting, tail waving, poss mating
12/24/02 - boas on opp. ends of cages
1/14/03 - no activity seen for last week or so, took male out
1/15/03 - fed both
1/31/03 - last few days female has been stretched out with wavy sides (belive pre-ov twist)
so I put the male back in this day
2/5/03 - he has been ignoring her this entire time, took him out.
3/14/03 - streched out with lots of curves
3/19/03 - put male back in again, he courted off and on next few days, nothing like before tho
3/27/03 - nothing seen last week or so, removed male last time, female very swollen, belive this is ovulation
4/15/03 - POS
Now, will this breeding produce babies? I'm not sure, the only mating and heavy courting
took place in Nov. and Dec, but she didn't have her POS until 4 months later. I have
read about them storing sperm, so it's very possible, but I'm just keeping my fingers crossed.
I believe your case could be the same, maybe they mated earlier, she just isn't comfortable
enough yet to start the process. In Feb I noticed my temps were about 5 degrees too
low, so I put them back up and after that is when she finally ovulated, so who knows, maybe
she was 'storing' the sperm until the optimum time and temps were available... just
my theory.
Since her shed did take a long time, I would say your girl is 'possibly gravid' and leave it
at that, wait the 105 or so days and hope for the best. [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] That's what I'm doing! GOOD LUCK!
-April
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