Gralena
Corn Snake Diva
Yeah, the hatchlings are probably very much over me messing with their goods
They are lucky I got the hang of it so I can leave them alone already.
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Popping new babies...questions...
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Yeah, the hatchlings are probably very much over me messing with their goods
They are lucky I got the hang of it so I can leave them alone already.
ratsncorns
Bird Nerd
I still need to work on my 'technique', I am so bookmarking this thread!
MegF.
That's for sale???
I usually wait until their third meal to pop. That way I don't stress them to the point they won't eat first. Just my thing. I'd repop any females you have before you sell them to make sure you didn't mis-sex them. It's common to mis-sex females sometimes. Usually if you do it twice with no hemipenes, then you'll be correct.
kathylove
Pragmatic & Logical
"...I'd repop any females you have before you sell them to make sure you didn't mis-sex them..."
ALWAYS - great advice! I actually re-sex EVERY baby before shipping or before setting up in a bigger cage if I am keeping it. Sometimes I find I have mis-sexed it, and occasionally I find that I stuck the wrong sex labels on the babies in a clutch when I am setting them up in mass at hatching time (I pop them before they eat). Doesn't happen often, but occasionally.
And I re-sex EVERY baby I buy! I don't care if it came from my best friend, or from the best known name in reptiles! Anyone can, and will, make a mistake now and then, so I want to be sure I have checked it for myself. If it is wrong, and I find out months later, I want it to be MY mistake, not one made by somebody else.
ALWAYS - great advice! I actually re-sex EVERY baby before shipping or before setting up in a bigger cage if I am keeping it. Sometimes I find I have mis-sexed it, and occasionally I find that I stuck the wrong sex labels on the babies in a clutch when I am setting them up in mass at hatching time (I pop them before they eat). Doesn't happen often, but occasionally.
And I re-sex EVERY baby I buy! I don't care if it came from my best friend, or from the best known name in reptiles! Anyone can, and will, make a mistake now and then, so I want to be sure I have checked it for myself. If it is wrong, and I find out months later, I want it to be MY mistake, not one made by somebody else.
MegF.
That's for sale???
Good idea. I haven't ever worried about resexing ones I bought. Most of the stuff I buy now are baby chondros or something like that or proven adults so I don't have to guess. The chondros can't be sexed so it's always a grab bag. I guess I should recheck my amazons one of these days. I know what mine are, but the one I bought originally as a male might not be. Not really an issue though as I have plenty of both males and females so if he turns out to be a she...I'll just pair "him" up with something else. I wish amazons shed sperm plugs like chondros do. It would be a heck of a lot easier than probing! and less painful too