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[Cleef]

Hello folks,

For the past month or so I have been trying to get my leopard geckos to breed. The females are not receptive though, and I'm not sure why.

I am trying pairings with 2 of my 3 year old (never bred before, normals) females, and a new male who is roughly 10 months (also never bred before, hypo tangerine)

Each time I introduce 1 of the females into the males enclosure. Immediately the male becomes excited, starts the usual tail flicks and quickly starts the nipping and moves into mating position. After a few nips though, the female will quickly qive him a good bite, and shake him off, total rejection.

Now, is this because the male is too young, or something to do with the females? I would have thought if he was too young though, he would not even attempt to breed

When I bred leopard geckos a good few years ago now, I used the same technique of inroducing the females into male territory and never had a problem. The females I have at the moment were slightly cooled over winter, heat mat was on for ~10 hours now increased to 14 hours. Also photoperiod/ambient air temp was in sync as the room is lit by natural daylight..

I have an older more experienced female I could try with him, but at over ten years old now her breeding days are behind her really, so I would not want to cause any unnecessary fatigue.

Just wondering if any of you know what the main reason for the lack of receptiveness may be,

Cheers,
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Steve P

[serpent]

[Cleef]

I'll give it a try, thanks for the tip
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Steve P

[stubeanz]

thats what happened with mine when i introduced a male they had a bit of a fight but now they all happily sit together and they have mated like serpent said leave them a while and they will get used to each other
stu

[Exalted Gecko]

I had the same problem recently, I just kept on introducing them until the female decided she was up for it
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Kind Regards,

Chris