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black_wolf May 20, 2007 01:13 PM

Is probing Spotted pythons any different than corn snakes, or are they all pretty much the same? Males are deep and squishy while females are shallow and harder right? The reason I ask in I wanna get the hang of probing because I'm thinking about breeding mine next year and wanna be able to say when gender it most likely is. I can't seem to get popping to work.

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1.0.0 Bearded Dragon (Rex- "normal" orange fire)
1.0.0 Bearded Dragon (Glutany- German Giant Mix)
0.1.0 Okeetee Corn (Okatee)
1.1.0 Spotted Python (Hotdog and Shoelace)
0.1.8 Emperor Scorpion
0.0.1 Vietnamese Centipede

Replies (3)

zach_whitman May 21, 2007 09:09 AM

Do not attempt to pop a snake as large as yours. You can't do it and will hurt him/her if you try hard enough. Popping only works with very small hatchlings.

Probing does work the same way as with corns, but I don't know the exact scale counts for each sex.

Sonya May 21, 2007 05:04 PM

>>Is probing Spotted pythons any different than corn snakes, or are they all pretty much the same? Males are deep and squishy while females are shallow and harder right? The reason I ask in I wanna get the hang of probing because I'm thinking about breeding mine next year and wanna be able to say when gender it most likely is. I can't seem to get popping to work.

I hate popping. I would say that probing is likely 10-12 for a male and 3-4 scales for a female.
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Sonya

I'm not mean. You're just a sissy.
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black_wolf May 22, 2007 08:13 AM

thank you ^_^
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1.0.0 Bearded Dragon (Rex- "normal" orange fire)
1.0.0 Bearded Dragon (Glutany- German Giant Mix)
0.1.0 Okeetee Corn (Okatee)
1.1.0 Spotted Python (Hotdog and Shoelace)
0.1.8 Emperor Scorpion
0.0.1 Vietnamese Centipede

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