My snake wont eat! (Actually about snake breeding)

[Venomous_RBB]

Nah just kidding, waiting for those types of threads to pop up though.

Anyway onto the questions. My friend has a male and female childrens, she put them together about a month ago, mating occured (Actual penetration) and the female shed 2 weeks later(obviously not her pre lay). She has put them back together and again, mating is occuring. I dont breed snakes and she has asked me advice, so here are her questions.
Questions:
1. Will the male still mate the female if she might be gravid?
2. She wants to cool them but should she cool the female even though mating has occured? Would it do any harm to the eggs?
3. She wants to know exactly how much her childrens should weigh. The female is 4yrs and the male is 5yrs, he is a slightly longer than her.

I told her about this site but is too nervous to ask so this is more for the snakes welfare, why I am asking the questions.
Any help, advice or other things you want to add, would be really helpful. (She already has her incubator and everything to set it up. She also has a "nest box" with dried sphagnum moss ready. If these are not so good, please let me know.)
Cheers

 

[stimigex]

You can get Antaresia to mate at any time of the year, will anything come of it usually no!
The female will not be gravid! The whole procees takes months not weeks!
She will have to put her pythons through the brumation process to achieve a healthy fertile
clutch of eggs. The process will trigger the various stages the pythons need to go through.
As far as weights anything above 350gms will be fine for a novice to attempt.

 

[Venomous_RBB]

Thanks stimigex
She cooled both of them down last year but she went away for two months and then left them for a while to boost up there weights before putting them together.
What do you recommend I should tell her? To brumate them until September then put them together? or?

Both are above that weight so great.

 

[stimigex]

The have to be mated during the brumation cycle. 2 books with plenty of info on this sort of thing and well worth
reading, Keeping Childrens Pythons by Greg Fyfe and Darren Green and Keeping and Breeding Australian Pythons by Mike Swan.

 

[Venomous_RBB]

She has the one by Mike Swan, so I will tell her to read it.
Cheers.