How do you sex?

[1nstinct]

This is strictly for ball pythons, since other species of snakes are hard to pop(adult carpets).
How how do you sex you ball pythons?
I personally pop my bps while probe other species.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

I prefer popping for both hatchlings and adults.

I rarely probe the few times I did was always because the animals were very tensed (those were adults) which made it more difficult to pop.

[iCandiBallPythons]

I always pop adults and hatchlings, Ive never trusted probing personally.

[Tfpets]

I thought I stumbled onto a different forum when I saw the title of this thread!

I prefer popping at any age. I haven't been comfortable with probing. I had a ball probed by a professional and they said female. I then popped him and he was very much a male!

[John1982]

I pop - if it's male, they're done. If I didn't get hemipenes I double check with the probe. Ain't nothing wrong with being certain!

[loonunit]

Badly! I've managed to confirm all of the animals I've purchased by popping, but I'm really terrible with hatchlings. I'm terrified of hurting them, or I don't know, maybe I'm doing it wrong? I usually end up taking the entire clutch to the vet to get probed. I'm going to have to start probing them myself, because I just don't trust my popping.

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I pop - if it's male, they're done. If I didn't get hemipenes I double check with the probe. Ain't nothing wrong with being certain!

Yeah, that's what the vet does. It's very solid when he does the popping: penes all the way, or no penes. And then he double checks the girls with the probe.

[AK907]

I pop - if it's male, they're done. If I didn't get hemipenes I double check with the probe. Ain't nothing wrong with being certain!

This.

[Wyldrose]

I only have 2 yearling bp's both I have popped not probed. They are so much easier to pop then my colubrids! My new kingsnake didn't need to be popped when I got him, he musked me and everted his penes lol!

As for my corns I pop the hatchlings and probe the bigger ones. I can tell by feel when the probe goes in if it's a boy or girl. So I don't have to stick the probe in very far.

Edited to add Both my BP's are males lol

[don15681]

you forgot one, you can sex by ultrasounding

[Don]

I pop all of our snakes from hatchlings to adults. I do have a set of probes and will use those on possible females sometimes to confirm my pops. Males are pretty obvious and usually do not need to be probed.