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Well, don't i feel stupid!!!! LMAO

fatman

fatman

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So, i've had my 1st and 2nd corn for about a year and half now and they are my lil "boys" or so i thought that is!!!! I took a shed skin of each down to the lps to double check their sex and was told they are FEMALE!!!!!!!! OOPS! I think i may have given them a complex by calling them boys! lmao
 
I wasn't aware you could sex a snake by its tail shed... At least not accurately, anyway... What did they do, scale counts, or just estimate on length/shape?

That aside, I think we all have a story like that. My first ball python was a "he" for 10 and a half years until I got "him" and made a trip to the vet... Oh, hey, by the way, "he" is a "SHE!" I should've guessed based on her sheer size... But still, lol!
 
I didn't know you could sex a snake by it's shed skin either.. dang.. learn something new every day LOL
 
It's not exactly 100% but you can sometimes get a good idea of sex by shed skins.

95% of my male leave two dots of blood at the vent area when they shed. It's related to how the hemipenes are connected and the way the skin comes off.

Again not 100% accurate, but plausible.
 
This probably happens all the time. All my snakes are rescues, so I don't know their gender. I looked at their tales alongside the illustration in Kathy Love's book and guestimated that they were girls. I just took Mango to a reptile vet and found out he's a boy. Hopefully he's not offended by his name; I guess Mango is a unisex name, right? ;)
 
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