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I know how to sex cresties, I just want to know what age you guys call yours at. Burton is about 7 months old and isn't showing any signs of pores or hemipenes. I know cresties are sexually mature around 9 months, so I was wondering if Burton might still surprise me with some boy parts. Is it safe for me to call Burton a girl and look into putting a male in quarantine, or should I wait a few months yet? Any thoughts would be appreciated.

I'd wait another 2 months or so. I was just about convinced mine was female, then within a week he developed hemipenes.

I'd wait a month or two more, they can always surprise you.

i'd wait as well. I was also convinced mine was a female and then one day i noticed it was a male.

I think its really more based on size than age, I don't know what weight you could know for sure though.
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1.2 Ball Pythons 1.1 Amazon Tree Boa 1.0 Corn Snake (and 9 eggs) 1.0 Dumeril's Boa 2.1.10 Bearded Dragons 2.1.2 Crested Geckos (and 2 eggs!) 1.1.4 Eastern Box Turtles 1.0 Northern Mockingbird 0.3 Chickens 2.0 Cats 1.1 Ferrets plus lots of mice and feeder insects and 5 Black Rat snake eggs

My crestie was a slow grower to begin with, so "she" surprised me the "the bump" at about a year and a half. Right after I put him/her in with a male. Maybe being around a male and his pheremones/testosterone finally triggered the male development?