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[Scott W]

Just curious what's the lowest weight anyone has bred a male at, and had fertile eggs?

I have a small albino male, I'm guessing under 450g's and he's been mating albinos and hets for the last 7 days.

I have heard several accounts of males that are less than a year old breeding and fertilising eggs, youngest being 4 months old (although I don't know what the weight was).
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[SteveL]

if hes doing the job i would say hes ready for it

good luck
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[Spiderman]

I think the general feeling on this topic is that, younger and lighter males can and will breed at the weight and age you stated, but there is less chance of successful fertilisation. Males generally breed consistently at 800+ Grams. Therefore I think that males breeding at less than 800 Grams sucessfully is the exception to the rule.
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[Scott W]

I weighed him last night, 446 grams.

He hasn't fed since September either, so I guess he would be nearer the 600g's if he had good body weight.
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[rachel132002]

I've always seen it as 600-800g is the average on successful matings but you never know i guess until you try, as for sperm plugs well learnt my new interesting fact the other day that in fact they aren't actually sperm at all and are no indicator of whether a male is fit to breed or not just shed skins of the hemipenes or something on those lines.

Rach
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[rachel132002]

quite possibly lol - just whats written in the VPI book
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3 BCI
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2 JCP
2 Leos
1 Beardy
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[Scott W]

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