Quote Originally Posted by k2l3d4 View Post
There's really no need to separate them just yet, not until she starts looking really fat and close to giving birth. When she's closer to laying, and she goes into shed, that's a good time to separate. But don't move her, move him instead, because you want to put as little stress on a gravid female as possible. Stress can cause them to lose their babies.
If she is pregnant, how will I know? (other then having extra snakes in the tank) Will he quite bothering her? I put up a divider in the tank, so that way she could get some peace, but now he does not appear to be interested in her.[/quote]

Depending on the male, he may or may not stop bothering her. Some males will court any female, any time, anywhere, all day long no matter WHAT the situation is, whether she's receptive or not. Some males only court receptive females. Some males fail and don't ever court anything!! If your female is gravid, you will most likely start to notice a huge, almost SCARY increase in her appetite. She may become a good bit aggressive at feeding time. you will start to see the back half of her swell with girth, she will look fatter. Provided she is carrying a decent sized litter, eventually her back end will be so fat that the skin between her scales will all be showing and even when she hasnt eaten in days, she will look like she just ate her own weight in food. Eventually, she probably will stop eating as she gets closer to birth. The babies take up too much room in her belly. Now, just remember, this is how the normal and ideal pregnancy goes... and that all of these things MAY or may not happen. Sometimes you don't even know a snake is gravid and ALL the sudden, you have babies born.