Popping; Age limit?

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Originally Posted by OctagonGecko729

you just have to know how to do it.

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That sums it up about perfectly I don't trust popping females 100% after they hit a certain size..but I am around 90%. Males are easy...females always leave me with a smidgen of doubt.

I can sort of pop, but can never evert the hemipenes. But males are always veiny while females are not, at least that's what I've noticed. I have a girl that probes at 5 scales but I know that she's a girl because she lacks the extra veins. Now I'm waiting on the day that I can pop & see hemipenes lol

That's what I figured, I just see a lot of debates about it!

I've done a bit of probing, but to this day it still scares the crud out of me! I'm always afraid I'm going to hurt the animal (always the males because, obviously, the probe goes so much farther and they're always the squirrely ones).

FINALLY remembered to pick up some Vaseline and got a good, reliable probe done on my snake. The probe went about 9 scales and wanted to keep going, but I figured at NINE it was pretty obvious he was a boy!

I don't probe nor pop my adults. I encourage everyone to practice & get good at palpating.

Accurate, and completely non-invasive. With enough practice, you may even be able to palpate hatchlings. I can, but I pop hatchlings just to confirm. Haven't been wrong yet!

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Originally Posted by SquamishSerpents

I don't probe nor pop my adults. I encourage everyone to practice & get good at palpating.

Accurate, and completely non-invasive. With enough practice, you may even be able to palpate hatchlings. I can, but I pop hatchlings just to confirm. Haven't been wrong yet!

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Your everywhere!!!!!! Lol

bp.net, cornsnakes.com, BLBC, bCRC, Facebook....just try and avoid me ;)

But for real. Palpating should be "the way of the future...."

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Originally Posted by Kourtneyhk

Popping; Age limit?
Thanks everyone!

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As long as you know how to do it properly,I don't think it matters how old you are!:rofl: