I was thinking of getting a female Robo and perhaps breeding them, so I'm currently on a search for a female, if I can find one... I'm not sure that I mentioned this in my "One or Two" thread, but since they are so rare and hard to find I thought it might be a nice thing to take advantage of, and I had already thought of doing this in the past.
Anyway I've been posting around on forums and such looking for a Robo in my area and got this message from someone and want to know how accurate it is... I figure you babyboos and Emma will have a better idea since you have had them a bit longer..
Here is what this person wrote..
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Please don't breed Robos. They are very hard to at a young age and by the time you are able they have already mated. I started out with 3 baby Robos from a pet store. I wanted 2 since they looked like they got along so well, but I didn't wanted to break up the trio. Anyway, 2 of them started fighting something terrible within a couple of weeks - he still has the scars. What I didn't know was there was a female in the group. I found out after the babies were born and she was already pregnant again. I tried putting the 2 males back together, but the other one started doing a payback. Since I didn't have another cage, I put the father back with the mother until I could get another cage which was only a couple of days. Well, she had 3 litter with a total of 18 babies. I ended up giving a friend what I thought were 3 females - boy was I wrong. There was a male in the group that time and there were babies.
The reason for this long e-mail is if when you decide to sell the babies you won't be able to separate them accordingly and there will be other problems. I was under the impression Robos could live in groups - wrong again. One was killed by his siblings as my friend also experience - twice. I decided not to give the babies back to the pet store since though Robos are cute they are not for handling and I was afraid what might happen to them. I ended up having to buy separate cage for each of my males and pairing up my 4 remaining females since they also fought with one another.
Robos are pretty much like Syrians - they pretty much prefer to live alone unless with a female.
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Is this the persons experiance the result in not knowing what they are doing and simply not being able to sex Robos properly? They say that they are much like Syrians, I haven't had as much experiance with Robos but I feel like I have to dissagree. I am prepared to seperate them into seperate cages if need be etc. but I am very interested in the idea of breeding.
Perhaps if I started with one female the chances of fighting lessen? Anyway your thoughts please of his email.
I personally feel although I haven't as much experiance with this species I have a great source of help and encouragment from people here
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