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Pol: Sexing Hatchlings

Sexing Hatchlings

  • Probing

    Votes: 1 3.2%

  • Popping

    Votes: 27 87.1%

  • Candling

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Visual

    Votes: 3 9.7%

  • Other

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    31
Thinks2Much

Thinks2Much

Animal Enthusiast
I was just curious which methods are most common. I imagine people probably use more than one method over time, so let's stick to the first one you use on brand new hatchlings.

Choice 1 = Probing
Choice 2 = Popping
Choice 3 = Candling
Choice 4 = Visual (i.e. tail comparison)
Choice 5 = Other (please explain)
 
Candling?

I didnt know that you could candle to get the sex...I guess you do learn something new every day....Hows it done?
 
Hatchlings are too small to probe safely. Number three I've never heard of and number 4 is unreliable. Popping is the best IMHO.
 
The ones lacking black pigment you can candle their tails, makes have dark masses while females look empty. When you pop the males you can actually see the dark masses moving up and out from inside of them.
 
nesualCttaM said:
I didnt know that you could candle to get the sex...I guess you do learn something new every day....Hows it done?
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They say that you can see the hemipenis if you hold a flashlight up to the tail on lighter color hatchlings - amels, snows, etc. If you search for it here, you'll find a few threads on it. They say it doesn't work on adults. I tried it the other day on some amels I have that were hatched in March and it didn't work, (one was a known male and the other a known female and I saw nothing in either's tail) so maybe it has to be done immediately after hatching, I don't know.
 
Popping at first and if the sexe of the animal is important for the customer, I double check (females only) by carefully probing the ones that turned out to be females when I popped.

WYZ
 
blueapplepaste said:
Hatchlings are too small to probe safely. Number three I've never heard of and number 4 is unreliable. Popping is the best IMHO.
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Not true at all. Many people probe hatchlings.
 
I pop all of mine, then go back and probe the ones that popped female. I can usually tell by visually inspecting the tail and feeling it before I pop them but I'm not 100% accurate that way, thus the popping AND probing....... :)

Chris
 
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