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I found this in my female boa's water dish. If this is what I think it is, then my female is really a male?

he's a she!

Other way around. I meant looks like shes a he!

Males depositing sperm in water dishes......

Not sperm.
Not even a sperm plug.
They are in fact hemipenial sloughs ( sheds). They grow along with the snake, so they gotta shed to.

Anthony
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I've actually helped a young Boa pull a retained hemipenes shed off

They didn't look anything like that goop in the dish

That's interesting , I'm curious about this.

. . . Lar M
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What's really weird about this is I had a guy who is really knowledgeable about snakes tell me it's a female. He showed me the smaller spurs and said it's a female. The snake is only three years old and it's already 6ft and 12lbs so I assumed he was correct because females are normally larger than males. But now i'm not so sure.

Spurs are just an indicator, not an absolute truth... I've got a female I call trannie that's got huge spurs, and males with small ones... Get a set of probes and learn how to use them. But in my eyes pop them when they are young, that is the for sure way!
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06
0.2 h albino
07
0.1 dh snow
0.2 leticia
1.1 triple het
0.1 albino h snow
08
2.1 hypo hog
0.1 sunset
1.0 ghost
0.1 arabesque dh stripe alb
1.1 h type 2 anery
0.1 pastel motley
0.1 leticia
1.0 hypo ph bloody sharp
0.2 ph bloody sharp
1.0 h blood
0.1 sunglow poss super
1.2 anery h snow
0.2 albino h snow
1.1 50% guyana h albino
0.1 triple het
0.1 ghost h albino
1.0 jungle h anery ph albino
0.1 pastel het albino
09
1.1 dh blizzard
0.1 h albino
0.1 jungle h albino
1.0 motley h albino ph snow
1.0 albino h snow
1.0 anery h snow
1.1 hypo dh stripe albino
and 25 balls

I got a vet coming over in a few weeks that i'm gonna have probe. We're all in agreement though that the pasty white stuff in the water dish is caused from a male?