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In these days , I was tried to checked sex of my STP . I fould "she" has no spurs and I guess it's a female . I have also tried sexing probe , the depth of it's tail is about helf .

Can I check their sex by their spurs ?
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Hey,
I don't know what age your blood is nor your level of experience, so I would be very very careful, trying to probe your blood. It is very easy to puncture the a hemipene and even the out pocket that forms in the female at the end of the base of the tail. It is easy to mistaken a female for a male if you don't know what to look for. My advice is to weight until the snake is at least a year old or older before trying to get a sex assessment on it. Note: males and female bloods, also, have a tendency to look very much alike in terms of tail length and girth, so the tail thickness or length is not a good barometer for gauging the sex, and neither is the spur diagnoses. Both sexes have almost equal spur sizes at times and also, some males sometimes either lack them or lack noticeable spur size altogether.
-Angel
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Evil Canevil

Hey,
I don't know what age your blood is nor your level of experience, so I would be very very careful, trying to probe your blood. It is very easy to puncture the hemipene, and even the out-pocket that forms in the female at the end of the base of the tail. It is easy to mistaken a female for a male if you don't know what to look for. My advice is to wait until the snake is at least a year old or older before trying to get a sex assessment on it. Note: males and female bloods, also, have a tendancy to look very much alike in terms of tail length and girth, so the tail thickness or length is not a good barometer for gauging the sex of bloods, and neither is the spur diagnoses. Both sexes have almost equal spur sizes at times and also, some males sometimes either lack them or lack noticeable spur size altogether.
-Angel
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In life you can fall many times, but you're only a failure, if you don't try to get back up!
Evil Canevil

Thanks for your reply , Angel . As your advice , it's seems the besy way to checking their sex is by sexing probe . In truth , I know how to use sexing proble to make out snake sex and have much exprence on other species , such as boas , Therefore , the problem of sexing probe use of mine is that different species has their different dipth of their tail while I am checking their sex . For example , I have checked an ETB sex 2 months ago , the dipth of the boa is quite deep and it's seems the ETB is a male boa . It's makes my friends and I wondered that we mistaken the ETB was a male . After we talked about this with a exprence herp importer , he said in truth the ETB is a female . So , as different species has their different dipth of their tail for making out their sex . This problem will never happend while I am checking other species who has longer tail and more easily to sexing out . Bloods has shorter tail and I think it's more difficult than other simple species . Do you know the dipth standard of bloods while I am checking their sex ? thanks .
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3.5.0 Boa constrcitor
1.0.0 Morelia amethistina
0.1.0 Python breitensteini
1.1.0 Candoia aspera
0.0.1 Cylindrophis ruffus
0.0.1 Eryx miliaris miliaris
0.1.0 Iguana iguana
0.1.0 Brachypelma emilia

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Adult females tend to probe deep at typically 1.0 to 1.5 inches. Adult males will probe at least 2.5 inches.

Kelly