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i have had my water dragon for about 5 months now not usre how old it was when i got it (it was 11 inches though), not sure what age they need to be to be sexed, i do know there sexed by their vents so my other question is i have a frilled lizard as well that is definatly male so whould the vents look the same on two seperate types of lizrds or could i just try to mathc them to sex my cwd, thanks,

How long is your waterdragon right now, STL? I can give you an approximate age... they are usually pretty sexeable at 18" STL. There are a couple ways that you could tell... males tend to have larger, darker, more pronounced femoral pores... these are the bumps that run across the inner thigh... females tend to have smaller, less visable, white pores. You can also tell by the hemipenal buldges.. these are located underneath the tail near the vent... NOT underneath the stomach end of the vent.. you can hold your waterdragon on the palm of your hand facing away from you and lift the tail gently and not too far up, there will be either two bumps to indicate male, or one or no bumps to indicate female. You can also tell, usually around the 18" mark, that females have a more pear shaped body and face and a more rounded tail, while males have a larger head more pronounced jowls with a larger crest and will have a crest plate running down the back with larger spikes than a female would have, and have more of a triangular shaped tail.
Do not go by coloration of the throat or armpits, as females can have just as nice coloring as males. If you can throw some pictures up I could be of some assistance.

thanks for the help, its only about 15-16 inches long so i geuss ill have to wait a few more inches, il try to get some pics but i need a cable for my camera so ill get that asap, thanks again, i more theing it has a decent sized crest already is that a sign of a male.

You will find in many agamid's the females have short blunt nose, once you see a few, you will have no more problem sexing them.

I sex them as they hatch and almost never miss.

thanks that helps mine definitly looks like the one on the top but with bigger crest and farely nice throat colaration so im i say to say most likely a male?

typos sorry i meant to say at the end there **am i safe to say its a male most likely**

It's hard to be sure when you only have one lizard, usually this is helpful when sexing many.
However notice the eye coloration and the black strip from eye to tympanum, in males this strip is almost always more visible and the eye of females lither collared.

I had sexed my female when she was 4 to 6 months, by the coloration on her neck, and when she got older, I found that I was correct.

My female is completely peach colored under her neck and no blue, also smaller spikes on top.

I dont think that looking at coloring is a good way of determining gender.. my female has an orange neck with blue/teal coloring from the bottom of the jaw to the lips...along with peach colored "arm-pits"... I do agree however with the black stripe being more prominant on a male than a female, but I have also seen females with quite the black stripe on them as well.