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Jeweled curly tail sexing.

Asmodea May 08, 2004 05:37 PM

As cool looking as fire skinks are, I just got bored with their habbit of constantly being burrowed unless it was feeding day where they could grace me with a couple hours of surface time. So I traded the pair in for the pet store's trio of jeweled curly tails.

Now my question is, how can you tell male/female in them? Of the three, two have the same mostly lighter coloration, but a slight size difference. The third has darker blacks and reds, but then a brighter orange on the face/chin that the first two almost totaly lack.

The two lighter colored ones Act more "maleish" I think. I've seen both them do lateral compressions and head bobbing, which I have yet to see the darker one do. But then my female iguana does this more often tham my male one does, and is generaly the boss there.

Asmodea Drey'Haus

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kyle1414 May 08, 2004 09:11 PM

males are more colorful with reds and oranges along with green. Females are pretty brown. A good site with pictures is http://centralpets.com/pages/photopages/reptiles/lizards/PHOTO_LZD2669.shtml and the bottom picture shows a male and female. You should be able to tell which one is which.
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2.0.0. guinea pigs (Midnight, Nathan)
1.0.0 Jeweled curly tailed lizard (Hunter)
0.1.0 Hatian Curly tailed lizard (Lizzie)

Asmodea May 08, 2004 09:14 PM

er, wow, going off the coloring of that photo, all three of mine would be male, and I don't think I've ever seen a female in any shop befor.

Asmodea Drey'Haus

kyle1414 May 15, 2004 08:48 PM

yea, Ive seen very few females at pet stores. I got mine from a breeder
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2.0.0. guinea pigs (Midnight, Nathan)
1.0.0 Jeweled curly tailed lizard (Hunter)
0.1.0 Hatian Curly tailed lizard (Lizzie)

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