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From reading what little I can gather from the Search function (I'm this has been asked, but I hardly found anything...sorry), and a bit of quick Googling of the subject, redtail boas are not easy to sex are they?

I have a customer who wants to know the gender of his redtail...

So both genders have spurs with the males having bigger ones...which of course is a bit hard to really be sure since I don't have a snake of known gender on hand, not have I seen them before.

Looking at the tail bulges, and whatnot, its also hard to tell without an example on hand or seeing it before.

And by reading other posts below, it seems that even when you are pretty sure that your snake is one gender, it may actually be something else.

So I'm not likely to have much of a chance on making a guess, am I? Probing is about our only option?

Is way to tell at a glance sometimes, but yes, as the post below shows, you can not always count on it.

Male spurs are usually more clawlike. Female spurs more conical and generally recessed.

With adults, probing is the best way to be sure.

Jesse
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