Popping

[hungba]

Today I was finally able to pop, so that I can evert what is inside.
However, I have a hard time telling the males and females for babies, because the male hemipenes on a baby is very small, and the females also have scent glands which look similar to small hemipenes of an immature male.

The videos and photos I see online that are of ball python BABIES are usually very hard to see the details of the female scent glands. They are not very clear nor focused enough.

I have a known male that I popped and red hemipenes everted, but they weren't very big. Another one of unknown sex has also similar sized "heads" evert out, but they are just pink like the rest.

Can someone tell me how to tell the difference between a hemipene which is small on a baby snake, vs. the scent glands on a female snake?

Do the female scent glands also come out by "inflating" when popped like the hemipenes? (Kind of like an inverted baloon being blown back up the correct way)?

[snakesRkewl]

males are red tipped, as long as you don't apply to much pressure the females will be pink.
Also the females have a white nub in between the scent glands, the males do not have that nub in between the hemipenes.

[LLLReptile]

Hemipenes, even on a baby, are very distinctly red. Even if they're small, you can see a red vein running through them that makes it very clear it's a hemipene.

If what you are everting seems bright red, even on a baby that has tiny, female - like nubs, you are probably applying too much pressure too close to the vent; try placing your fingers/thumb a bit further back on the tail.

-Jen

[hungba]

Know of any clear pictures I can see of that? Thanks.

EDIT : This is for Snakeskewl.

TO LLL Reptile.
Not exactly sure what you mean. You said they should be distinctly red, but then you said that if they are red then I am pushing too near the vent? Not exactly sure if they should be red or does red mean doing it wrong?

One thing I would like to know is, do the "female nubs" come out looking as if they are "inflating"? Like first something comes out, then those nubs "inflate" or turn outwards? If you know what I mean? I am talking about a female here.

[snakesRkewl]

http://www.vpi.com/publications/dete..._sex_of_snakes