So I just introduced my male and female dumerils boas to see how they’d interact with each other and my male was fine for a bit but when the female was right in front of him he started to open his mouth as if he was eating something that was already dead. I pulled him back out of fear that he was gona cause some damage. Anybody ever seen this behavior during breeding?? The male is the smaller one
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He may have been trying to scare off the female. Dumeril boas are cannibalistic. You may want to keep them separate until they are the same size.
I only breed Dumerils one time. Both Dumerils where about the same size 7 foot and around 30 lbs. All the babies where very hard to get them to eat. Sold all to a wholesale who knew how to care for them better then me. Gestation was longer the normal boas. All babies where very big at birth and shed in two days.
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Thanks for the information, I’ll give him some time to grow
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Just bringing this back up because Iv waited some time for the male to catch up in size. So ive had them together for maybe 20 minutes and out of no where the male nipped the female. I read that was normal?? But less then 5 minutes later they wrapped around each other with there mouths locked on each others necks!! I sprayed them with water and got them to let go and seperated them, is this normal behavior?? My bi’s are literally just chilling with each other meanwhile the dumerils wouldn’t stop moving
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She’s not receptive yet. Until she is, this will probably be your outcome. If you don’t have access to an ultrasound, I’d at least wait for storm fronts or temperature changes before you consider pairing again.
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let me save you some stress, get a big stick, and run the male across it (he will think its girlfriend), let him scent it leave him with it for 2-3 days, stick the female in a fresh bin with that stick and another clean stick (shop vac hoses work great), does she choose the stick with the males scent? Does she turbo flick her tongue? .
Potential you have two males , I didnt read to see if you probed but, next time you need to do some shed/scent testing prior to just pairing any boa.
Males will get very territorial, and also, this is why you should never feed live prey to your breeder boas.
I dont mess with dumerils, beautiful beasts but extremely tedious breeding, you need both an ultrasound, and two docile giant snakes.
Hope it works out, get some SSD cream on that girls face after some betadine cleaning.
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