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asmodias
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 25/05/2013 : 21:34:27
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Recently my one of my smaller males name Kaar has been acting oddly. Whenever he comes into contact with his partner (who he's been with his whole life, no problems) or sometimes without any apparent reason he gets jumpy. His movement seems to go in jumps.
It's sort of hard to explain, he does a little forward motion, stops, forward, stops, forward, etc.
The closest thing I can think to describe it is... well... if you've ever played a first-person shooter online and you got a lag spike, it's much like that.
It's sort of like a spasm, but controlled and I have no idea what it could be. He eats, poops, and sheds fine but it's somewhat puzzling. |
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gmac
The Scottish Admin
United Kingdom
5319 Posts |
Posted - 25/05/2013 : 21:43:15
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| there is a reason for it, hes trying to get jiggy with her. Males do this to the females before breeding. |
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SilverWings
Yearling
United Kingdom
740 Posts |
Posted - 25/05/2013 : 21:45:21
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| It's odd, isn't it XD Scared the daylights out of me when I first saw Diego doing it, thought he had some kind of brain damage. It's normal though in males at this time of year, don't worry about it :p |
2.2.3 Corn snakes; Red, Rosie, Liana, Checkers, Luna, Diego, Snowman
1.0 Taiwanese Beauty Snake; Aleron
1.0 Green Anoles; Doug
1.0 Greyhound; Lee |
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asmodias
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
26 Posts |
Posted - 25/05/2013 : 21:53:41
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Originally posted by gmac
there is a reason for it, hes trying to get jiggy with her. Males do this to the females before breeding.
In that case, I may have the first homosexual corn snake.
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ScalySituation
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
5292 Posts |
Posted - 25/05/2013 : 22:00:45
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| Not necessarily, they do it without being around a female :) |
1.0.0 Butter motley corn (Sheldon)
0.1.0 Caramel Corn (Maggie)
0.1.0 Caramel motley corn (Echo)
1.0.0 Cat (Angus)
1 mealworm colony
RIP Skye x
Sleep well Sonny, Mummy loves you xx
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mjpeters
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
1539 Posts |
Posted - 25/05/2013 : 22:28:57
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Originally posted by asmodias
quote:
Originally posted by gmac
there is a reason for it, hes trying to get jiggy with her. Males do this to the females before breeding.
In that case, I may have the first homosexual corn snake.
Now don't get them lined up for a civil partnership just yet!in lots of species males try it on with each other  -especialy when there are no ladies around  |
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AcidicAngel
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
1212 Posts |
Posted - 25/05/2013 : 22:52:12
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Or... You could possibly have a male and female unless they've both been proven male through breeding in the past  Males can probe as female and females can probe as male. Popping is also inacurate as a male can hold his hemipenes in. Just a warning. My girl Sakana was originally probed as male and her cage mate(when my uncle had her) was probed as female when they are actually the other way round Sakana is with me and her cage mate(also her brother) is still owned by my uncle. Sakana has however just laid me some nice healthy eggs after being bred to my butter male  |
Corn Snakes.
1.0 Butter - Cereus.
1.0 Caramel Stripe het Amel - Vladimir.
0.1 Normal het Amel, Caramel, Hypo - Amara.
0.1 Masque het Amel, Anery, Charcoal, Diffused, Hypo, Lavender, Stripe - Aurelia.
1.0 Masque Anery het Amel, Charcoal, Diffused, Hypo, lavender, Stripe - Orion.
Leopard Gecko's.
Too many to list!!
Rat Snake.
1.0 Yellow Rat Snake - Leviathan(Levi)
Western Hognoses
1.0 Normal 50% poss het Frosted(Dutch Hypo, Caramel) - Thorne.
0.1 Frosted - Rose.
1.0 Anaconda het Snow(Amel, Anery) - Titan.
0.1 Normal het Snow(Amel, Anery) - Nyx.
R.I.P Pandora & Sakana, entwined in my heart forever my darlings. |
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Kellog
the nice one
United Kingdom
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Posted - 26/05/2013 : 08:55:41
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It definitely sounds like breeding behaviour, my male does something similar when he's horny .
I'm with AcidicAngel....unless you've bred from Kaar then don't assume he's male. One of mine was probed as male and a couple of months later laid unfertilised eggs  . Definitely NOT male! Personally I would separate them, otherwise you might land up with some unexpected babies !!
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