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A little while back, I posted a message, asking about determining the sex of a gophersnake. Some said that you can tell by the tail. Here is a picture of one of them. Can anyone tell anything about its gender from this pic?

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Here is another pic (same snake)

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It's hard to tell from the angle of the pics you provided. I've got all female Gophers (4). If you could post a pic w/ more of a side angle, so you really see the tapering off after the anal plate that is indicative of a female.

reako45

OK, here is a picture of that snake's tail from the side. I hope this will help.

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At first I thought female, cuz you can see a bit of a taper, but you can also see a bulge below the anal plate which usually signifies male. Sorry I can't come up w/ anything more conclusive. I'm sure Ginter or one of the other more experinced snakeheads'll be along shortly to give you something more definite.

reako45

I vote female.

Is that a great basin?

Yup... that's a Great Basin. We have two that we would love to eventually house together, so that's why I want to get the sex (of at least one) figured out first. It's not a good idea to house two males together, right??

I have all females and I still keep them separate. That old "an ounce of caution" adage.

reako45

Of course, it would be ideal to keep them all seperate, but I don't have the room for another large tank. So if I could house these two gophers together in my 55 gallon, I could then give my ball python an upgrade to the 40 gallon that one of the gophers is currently in (the other is in the 55 gallon).

Am I correct in this thinking? That there is an obvious bulge after the anal plate on a male and no bulge in the female? In the pictures that I posted on this thread, I can see an obvious bulge after the anal plate. In just looking at our newer basin, I see no bulge at all... the tail looks quite different than the other snake. With this thinking... it seems that I just might have a male and a female!

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