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Hello to all and thank you for your help with my last issue. The SDZ diet is working she is gaining wieght. Now I have read that tegu's can be probed to establish sex. A friend at a local pet store did this for me and we determined if they probe like any other reptile she is a she. My question is. Do tegu's probe like any other lizard or is there a different method. Thank you all so much

Hi there! Typcially females probe shallow and males deep.
However, it needs to be done very carefully as the potential for tearing a female's uturian walls is high!

Smaller tegus are hard to determine via the spur method too. Males have wart-like spurs located by their colocial openning on either side. These are more felt, than visibly seen. Typcially they are smaller than a pencil eraser and are not too different in feel to a wart or a callius. One of my supposedly male reds
has been very difficult to find any spurs, thus a female perhaps?
I'm waiting for him/her to gain more wt before examining it again, or it is off to the vet for probing.........

Good luck!!!

Greg

Thank you for the help SHE'S A BOUNCING BABY GIRL!!!!!!!

Congrats! I just re-checked ozzy and he still seems to be a she as well!!! LOL He/She is still only around 24", so we'll see after he/she gains 1/2 to 1lb more to be 100%.

Take care!

Greg

The way that I actually figured out that Blake was in fact a he, was that he started popping, or sticking his hemipenes out when he went to the bathroom. At first I freaked out because I thought it was a prolapsed rectum. But apparently this is pretty common in skinks, and the vet wasn't horribly worried about it since it doesn't seem to cause him any discomfort.

Lindsay