popping vs probing

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Originally Posted by shadera

holy hell, i better go put a cake in the oven and get the mai-tais brewin'! :banana:

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Woooooooooooot!!!

:P

and when your done there,,swing by orlando?,all i get when i pop is peed on,nothing else comes out,,but nice pee,,,

i pop, it takes literally 2 seconds, its also a sure fire way rather than counting scales, when you see 2 red penes pop out, there is no mistaking it.

i pop... sometimes i probe older ones for reassurance but young ones are way easier to pop

I can and do both, But I prefer popping, because usually when I need to sex a snake I dont have a Probe kit in my back pockets. Also popping is EEEEEASY if you learn how to do it right. Both methods are dangerous to the animal if done incorrectly.

I am afraid to try either

Id love if someone would post a link on a proper video as to how to "pop" a snake. Because ive heard if you do it wrong it can really hurt the snake

So i just tried it out, amd i was succesful :) popping is very simple, only took me probably 2 maybe 3 tries and sure enough two little hemipenes popped right on out lol. If you do it correctly you really dont even have to use too much pressure at all. I was very nervous of hurting my little guy at first, but everything went well. So to anyone who is nervous or scared to try, just watched a few videos and get comfortable with it then try it out.

Now thats out of the way, if someone could take a look at the pic of my python and tell me which kind it is id appreciate it :D i just know that there are many different kinds of BP's and not to sure with how they all look. Thank you

My only concern with popping is, you can't pop a female. I can't tell you how many people I know have been burned on "females" that were popped and turned out to be males. It has happened to me as well. I always probe any snake that doesn't pop as a male.

I probe all my snakes. I just don't feel comfortable popping. Fortunately for you all, I just made an awesome video on how to probe ;)

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...r-snake!-Video!