I know this is the wrong forum for this but there is too much knowledge in here to pass up.

background: I have been keeping and breeding GA on and off for about 15 years so I thought that I knew a thing or two about sexing them. seems easy enough to spot a concave plastron and aggro behavior right?

About 2 mo ago I was given a sub adult resue ( my only breedable size currently so no courting was observed ) who upon inspection appeared to be showing the early signs of a concave underside and aggro behavior ( head bobbing and ramming ) toward some smaller GA as well as a male russian when given the chance.

Well I came two days ago and saw that he/she had dug a small bowl, when I got home yesterday he/she was over the bowl that now had a small cyl dug in as if to nest, this was the case until the cool down of the evening. if this is a female it very well may be the first clutch which I know can stretch the process out over some time.



My big question is does any one know of other sexing techniques?

I noticed the glands on the chin are not prodominant, eyes are a striking yellow, guller scute dont seem huge but it is a young tort still. But most noticable is a small stubbie tail.

any GA folks out there, I know Crutchfeld is out here with alot of tort time, any info will be helpful.

thank you.

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