Female mating with different males?

Kevin Illidan

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Hello guys, really need your help with this one.
I have a female Snow Bell (ovulated), and i house her with a SuperSnow het Bell (not mature yet)
The thing is, when i tried introduce the male Tornado Tangerine to the APTOR, and APTOR still refuse the male, so i did something really stupid, i took the Tornado male to the SnowBell box, and accidently they mated :( the problem is i want to save the Snow Bell for Super Snow, or at least my friend's male Snow Bell. As far as i know, LG only mate once, and laid eggs for the whole season.
So i want to ask you that what happen if i try introduce the female Snow Bell to another male SnowBell? What will the hatchling be? Tornado's son, or SnowBell's son?
And sorry for my bad English :)
 

DrCarrotTail

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If you introduce them to two males in the same season you won't be able to tell which male was the father unless the traits they have will be predictably different.
 

acpart

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It's still risky, but if you let your female lay 3 clutches or so from the current mating and then pair her with the other male, there's a good chance that the later offspring will be from the later mating.

Aliza
 

stager

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I know someone who had a gecko lay eggs from two different males in one season. But putting a male in with an ovulating female there mating was no accident. I'm not picking on you but why would you ever introduce any male and female if you didn't plan to mate them?
 

Kevin Illidan

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I know someone who had a gecko lay eggs from two different males in one season. But putting a male in with an ovulating female there mating was no accident. I'm not picking on you but why would you ever introduce any male and female if you didn't plan to mate them?
Yeah i know, that sound weird, it just i've been tried so hard to introduce the male to APTOR female, you know, cuz she's already laid 2 infertile eggs, and she's about to lay 2 more at anytime. So i just put him with the Snow bell just to make sure he's man enough to do whatever he's going to do, and they come close each other very quickly, and as a first time keeper, it's a little beautiful to watch them do their stuff, it's my first time to see my geckos do that :D so, i just leave them be, don't want to interupt, and my male SuperSnow can't be mature anytime soon to fertilize those SnowBell eggs, so you know... i'm greedy to have those babies :)
 

stager

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I understand but think of breeding like chess not checkers, good things come to those that wait. Anyway good luck
 

Kevin Illidan

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yeah thank you guys a lot :)
btw, my APTOR just laid another 2 eggs today, still not letting any male near her :( there're 4 infertile eggs now, don't know what to do to with her now :(
 

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