There is several interesting pieces to this question.
First, I must say that most fresh imported females, especially ones that come in under 40 grams should not be allowed to be continually bred.
This, and other forums are full of sad tails of dead females because of "egg binding". This is not really the primary issue, it is kidney failure in the female due to increased body weight after adulthood was achieved in the wild, and the added stress of egg production.
Having said that, I do have several wild caught pair that spend all their time together. They are mostly great big Patternless Olive's that were very robust when they arrived.
For all wild caught, white type females; Calico, Leucistic, Pied, whatever you want to call them, I do not them let them be with a male for more than 3 months. Some I pull the male even sooner depending on how frail they are after egg laying.
Of all the Tokay 'Morph' types, these seem to have the highest risk for failure. I pull the males from most of my other wild caught females in 4 to 6 months.
I can also tell you that very young captive bred females may parish if they are allowed to be over bred for more than one set of eggs in their first season. This can happen by 'accident' in the 'family' groups where the original male breeds his prodigy.
So, this brings me to the family unit. Depending on the allowed space of the enclosure, the key male can be happily bred with related females, like siblings, and the eggs and offspring are safe.
Now, all females need their space, and the average enclosure is no where big enough for multiple females. I have this condition in a 10' x 10' room.
Now, back to the family. The original pair will protect and 'brood' the eggs and defend their offspring and nesting territory. Once the prodigy start to mature, the male will start nipping at the young males tails. Eventually these little guys will loose their tails to dad's chastising. Should they be left in an enclosure with no place for the new boys to set up their own territory, Pops will kill them.
Now the adult female may feel the competition from her girls to mate with Dad and she will start nipping at their backside. If this is allowed to continue, they young females will eventually be badly broken and may parish from these crippling wounds.
Again, their social behavior is restricted by the limited sizes of our enclosures. If they had enough room to establish several different territorial zones, than I suspect a more forgiving result would be observed.
I can tell you that a 10' x 10' room is not big enough for two adults males without them fighting, nor is it big enough for two unrelated females without one eating the others' eggs.
My normal enclosure size is 12" wide x 24" deep x 30" tall. I have smaller for hatchling and sub-adults and I have 18" wide x 36" deep x 48" tall for older, bigger pairs. And then there are the five reptile rooms that have loose Tokay pairs for cricket clean-up.
Enjoy!
