Aggressive thrashing when paired

There is a video on youtube of some breeder and he says it is perfectly nornal for a male to thrash around!

From experience, it sounds like two males. Before I could tell on my own, I relied on the wrong person... sure enough, the "female" turned out to be a male.

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Originally Posted by highqualityballz

There is a video on youtube of some breeder and he says it is perfectly nornal for a male to thrash around!

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If it was just the male, I wouldn't be too worried but both snakes are thrashing pretty hard and fighting to be on top of each other.

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Originally Posted by Seven-Thirty

I've sexed all 8 of my snakes and the ones who have been sold to me as males had hemipenes and the ones who were sold as females had no hemipenes.

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You don't always find what you're not looking for. Are you actually seeing scent glands? I only ask because we recently we had a sexing issue with a female we were told was a male. While you aren't expecting hemipenes, we were and were putting quite a bit of pressure on her which caused just enough redness to further confuse. But, scent glands were clearly visible in photos we took and pointed out by a forum member, clearing up the sexing issue.


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Originally Posted by Seven-Thirty

I figured my technique was off. She's the only one of my snakes I can't seem to pop correctly. Hows this?

http://i.imgur.com/LgKRHja.jpg

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My guess you are not able to pop your snake properly which is not unusual as adults have a lot more control and are harder to pop if you have limited experience popping larger animals. Get the animal sex by someone who can pop an adult or sex it with a probe, someone with experience not someone that think they can do it after watchino a video once.

i've experienced that

i bought this "female" lesser from breeder few month ago, i was trying to pair her with my normal male
my mistake that i was not check again what really her sex is
and what i saw is agressive behaviour between them toward each other

soo, i separated them
re-sexed that lesser, and turned out to be male
for adult i prefer probe than pop, poping get harder to done when they get bigger and stronger

well, now i paired him with my proven female, and everything seems okay

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Originally Posted by Seven-Thirty

If it was just the male, I wouldn't be too worried but both snakes are thrashing pretty hard and fighting to be on top of each other.

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I really think your popping technique is off by just a bit. Your thumb of your left hand is a little to high over or on top of the vent scale and you need to depress that particular scale down and in. Then roll the thumb of your opposing hand up the tail of the animal. The way you are doing it is forcing the anus of the reptile out and into view. Your landmarks on the animal are off by a little. :)

Alright, i'm taking her into to get her sexed by someone with more experience. I'm still pretty convinced she's a female but just to make sure. I'll let you guys know the results tonight. Thanks for all the replies.

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Originally Posted by Seven-Thirty

Alright, i'm taking her into to get her sexed by someone with more experience. I'm still pretty convinced she's a female but just to make sure. I'll let you guys know the results tonight. Thanks for all the replies.

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That's cool too. You just have to adjust your hand positioning a little. It's always good to get a second opinion. Nice job.

Looking forward to hearing the ending of this saga!

To play the devil's advocate, what happens if it turns out that the snake was sexed correctly, and it is a M/F pairing? Do M/F snakes fight like M/M would for any reason?