How to get a male to realise he likes the girls???

[nimoryan]

I have an 2.5 year old male that doesn't want to get jiggy with it. He had stopped breeding for the previous owner about 8 months ago after being a fairly successful boy. If you look at my avatar.... this is him.... He is an amazing red body blue bar ambilobe that I would love to get to breed with a couple of my girls. I have tried every trick I know as did the breeder he came from so..... Anyone out there have any ideas??

 

[CNorton]

Viagra?

Sorry I hope someone with a little more experience with old boys chimes in!

 

[reptoman]

I have an 2.5 year old male that doesn't want to get jiggy with it. He had stopped breeding for the previous owner about 8 months ago after being a fairly successful boy. If you look at my avatar.... this is him.... He is an amazing red body blue bar ambilobe that I would love to get to breed with a couple of my girls. I have tried every trick I know as did the breeder he came from so..... Anyone out there have any ideas??

Are you putting the girl is his cage or the other way around? What does he do when put with a female?

 

[jrh3]

Put him with a male and see what he does, he might like it ha ha ha

 

[nimoryan]

The whats so far.....

The male...
He is amazing 2.5 years old has produced 6 viable clutches that I know of all more than 8 months ago.

He has tongue issues so has to feed from a cup or he does a strange side ways sneak attack on hornworms and crickets.

He is not fat but not skinny average size healthy with good eyes although I think sometimes by his actions he may be a little cross-eyed.

diet: consists of gut loaded crickets, with a mix of cricket-crack and my own items like chlorella, marigold extract, bee pollen, hibiscus flower etc.. and a custom wet mix. Also hornworms, silkworms, dubias, hissers, butterworms, and the occasional moth and mantis, along with occasional greens and some veggies.

housing: He is in a 24"x36"x48" outdoor enclosure with misters and rain heads using good clean aged rain water. When temps are to low or high as I am in Dallas the cage is moved into a large room that is temp and humidity controlled.

The process...I have both put him in her cage and her in his, but usually put her in his. Originally when he stopped breeding he was very aggressive to the females attacking them and biting them like they were another male . Now he is sometimes aggressive towards them but usually flares his neck and hides on the back side of a branch all fired up but bashful. I have tried 9 different receptive females with him and only one has ever elicited a head tick. Which he did for 5 seconds and then went to the bottom of his branch to eat.

I have tried putting mirrors around his cage to get him reminded of what to be aggressive towards and I have tried housing him with another aggressive male for a while, I put a female in with them and the aggressive male mated with her. I have tried a few other things as well but so far all to no avail.

so any other great ideas or not so great ideas or..... ?

 

[draetish]

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[nimoryan]

Oh yeah

And I am using reptaid too, good call Donna just forgot to mention that.

 

[laurie]

The best I can offer is cook some thin spaghetti, then beat him with a wet noodle until he learns to do as he is told.

 

[reptoman]

I wonder if trying to put him with a female in an unfamiliar area like a large ficus where they would be on nuetral territory might help. It may take some of the aggression out of it and trigger a better response.

 

[nimoryan]

Neutral Territory

I did try that in one of my big grow out cages. I put them both in at the same time and nothing happened. She was all acting like here I am and He was like hmm interesting branch oh look there is another one. The cage is a bit big though so... I don't know.

 

[ChamFreak]

The best I can offer is cook some thin spaghetti, then beat him with a wet noodle until he learns to do as he is told.

LMAO I love it

 

[OldSkoolxReasons]

When you introduce the female place her about 6 inches in front of the male facing him s she is forced to walk past him. If she gets that close it may trigger him. Sometimes they are just lazy. Only do this if he isn't generally aggressive though so he doesn't attack her.

 

[gpmo]

I read this somewhere... i am not sure where and am not sure it is right, so do some research on it if you want. I read that showing the male to another male near a female can increase the drive to mate. Once again i am not sure if this is a viable method or not it is just something i read and can't seem to remember where. Obviously keeping them well apart so there is no possible way to harm either one.

Maybe someone with more experience can chime in on it.

Gpmo (him)

 

[OldSkoolxReasons]

Someone also told me to show my male another male when he wouldn't breed but it didn't work on this particular male. He is such a nice cham that he didn't fire up at the other male even when the other male was hissing and going crazy. It has worked once or twice for me though, however it could have just been 100 other things I was trying as well so IDK.

 

[jtsnakeman]

i have a smoking ambilobe as well that has three of therons offspring to completly humiliate and he does nothing ?i have a male across the room he fires on .. but put a gal in his tree and he clams up?... i don't get it... i'd never sell him ,so i need to figure out what makes him tick... i live in western pa have them outside 6 months out of the yr. and inside 6 months all my gals have their own 18x18x36 ???? and they get the good stuff toeat hormnworms silkies crix and roaches, bananas , ect ect..

 

[nimoryan]

some other things I have tried. Still looking for ideas

I tried to show another male to him and back him down, several time over the past few weeks as well as show him another male after I show him a girl as well as the other way around. I even put another male in his cage when I put a female in with him. The other male mated with her and he did nothing. I put him in the females community cage and he ticked a bit but then went straight to the bottom of the cage and stayed there. I have him in isolation right now and am not sure where to go from here. He is a bit shy and not very aggressive so I am trying to boost his ego and let him get really territorial too.

Ryan