DFW Area Person Experienced With Probing

I have plans on aquiring two new snakes this weekend. They are supposed to be males. I'm trying to find out if their current owner has had them probed. If they haven't been, are there any members out there in the DFW area, preferably south of I-30, that can probe, or recommend someone that can? My yellowbelly was probed by the man I got him from, but he's almost an hour away, and that's a lot of gas for an unnecessary thing. I have no plans for the near future of breeding my guys.

Thanks!

How big are the males? If you can learn to pop, or find someone that can do that for you, that might work better. I'm in the Austin area unfortunately :(

I have the probing tools available but I'm in SA which is too far :/

But I've found that if it's sold as a male then it usually is. This is because most times the female is worth more, so if you did get a female by mistake, then it's your win because It's worth more. The times you have to be careful is buying a female, because the male can be way less or half price, you could be had easily if inexperienced.

If you go to the DFW reptarium in Plano they can pop for you.

I want to learn to do the popping and probing myself, but I don't want to accidentally hurt my guys! Thanks for the suggestions so far!

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Originally Posted by Tsanford

I have the probing tools available but I'm in SA which is too far :/

But I've found that if it's sold as a male then it usually is. This is because most times the female is worth more, so if you did get a female by mistake, then it's your win because It's worth more. The times you have to be careful is buying a female, because the male can be way less or half price, you could be had easily if inexperienced.

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I love SA! Too bad it's so far from here... :( I understand about the males being less expensive, therefore less likely to turn out female. I just like to know things for sure. :)