ball python female or is she a male trying to breed with my pastel male im lost

It looks like a lock to me, is the pastels tail under or?
Can you take a pic that's not so up close :)

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Originally Posted by snakesrkewl

it looks like a lock to me, is the pastels tail under or?
Can you take a pic that's not so up close :)

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the male pastel tail is on top and female normal on the bottom.dont realy want to keep bothering them so if i can get better shots later ill post them.

I would definitely get them resexed just to be sure. It's not unheard of for two males to lock..

Case in point:
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These are both very much male. They were separated soon after these pics were taken and the pied was moved to my het pied female's tub where he quickly started courting her. Up until that point he had completely ignored her for several weeks.

Males will lock with other males if they are really horny. Females will try to get lazy males to lock , but from what I've seen it seems to mostly involve nudging them and shoving their head underneath the male's body.

Anyway, the snake with its tail on the bottom is definitely a male. The snake on top could be either gender.

Het pied male locking with het lavender male when I withheld their girlfriends from them.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_1...0/IMG_3827.JPG

...Dang, Quiet Tempest, that is a pretty colored pied! What do his pied babies look like?

Looking at your pictures the normal is trying to lock up the pastel, that tells me the normal is a male ;)
I have yet to see a female even try to wrap up a male.

congrats on the lock :D unless they are dudes.. then congrats on a life lesson :P

can't hurt to double check the sexes!!!

well the pastel is a deff a male the original owner i got him from has paper work from the breeder to prove it.the female normal was sexed from the original owner that had her since a baby told me it was a deff female.it took me some time to get her from the lady but i traded her a normal baby male i had for the big female.but i will deff check them when there done doin there thing.its crazy. i thought males no the diffrence between a male and female.

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Originally Posted by loonunit

Males will lock with other males if they are really horny. Females will try to get lazy males to lock , but from what I've seen it seems to mostly involve nudging them and shoving their head underneath the male's body.

Anyway, the snake with its tail on the bottom is definitely a male. The snake on top could be either gender.

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she was rubbing him and nudging him.idk ill check when i see them apart.