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Sexing Sand Boas

quantim0 Oct 28, 2005 09:57 PM

One of my friends and I are thinking of starting to breed kenyans. He has a pair, but they are only a few months old. I have a anery that I've had for 1.5 years now. I don't know if it is a male or female. My guess is a male, because he's only about 14" long at this time. I think he's going to get a Albino het anery so we can get a difinitive genetic makeup of the babies. But I need to know the sex of mine first. I know there's a way to tell by the length of their tail, but that's all I've been able to find online. Thanks.

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robertstout Oct 29, 2005 12:33 PM

the males tail has a longer taper then the females,i have measured sub adults in lengths from 37 cms to 56 cms and their tails were either 4 or 4.5 cms this was 100 -290 gram snakes half male and half female. the longest tail i have is an older female at 5 cms. so its not really the length as much as how it looks,now it does seem more likly that a sub adult males tail would be 4.5 cms but its no guarantee.3 of 5 females were 4.5 and 4 of 5 males were4.5

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