Hallo..male or female?

"So Emily, what do you think"?
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why can't i take pictures like this!

;) I have been practicing photography for quite sometime.. all my phots are done on manual you would laugh if you saw whats taken on auto! I wouldnt even believe its my camera if someone lined up a series of auto shots lol..

An expensive pro camera doesnt hurt either ;) Thank you for the compliment. I use a Canon Rebel XTi, these pics were taken with an 18-55mm lens.

I'm seeing pre-anal pores... methinks he's a boy. :D

I am thinking I see pre anal pores too. I have to second he is a boy:D

But wait... Lets see what the master of sexing cresties has to say first.

Emily where are you??????

would those be the little tiny bulges i see above the base of his tail?

Kristy and lady, i meant no disrespect if you all know how to sex them too when they are young.. I really dont know how and Emily said she *might* be able to tell since hes (funny ive been assuming hallo is a he) only 4mos if i got good pics, i tried!

Those bumps are his hemipenes bulges coming in, I would imagine (and yes, only males have them).

Pre-anal pores are pores on the scales between the legs, right near the vent. They are pretty hard to see... a female's scales will be smooth while a males scales will have little "pits" or pores in them...

Oh no problem, Emily just seems to have a good eye for sexing young cresties. That what I meant by master lol. She accurately sexed one of mine as female that was younger than Hallo I think.

http://www.pangeareptile.com/id52.htm

There's a good article on on cresties... if you go to the very bottom of the article, it shows a little better what we talk about when we say pores.

well, it looks like kristy and lynn have pretty much taken care of things here ;), but i'll agree that i do see pre-anal pores so it looks like hallo is a male. great link too lynn!. :gj:

saweeeettt... now im glad i didnt pick up that male from the petstore awhile back. Now if only Trick or Traid proove to be female i would be in crestie heaven!

That link had some AWESOME photos on it!! holy smokes, i see the pores your talking about now.. and on hallo too. awesome!

Now that I know hes pretty much a male wouldnt I need to make sure hes kept away from the female should one of the babies prove out to be girls? If I have multiple males would i need to kepe them apart from one another too right? Can i get a larger aquarium for them and just get up to two dividers? would that even work so they can live in the same tank at least or is that not such a great idea... suggestions as to how to keep them in a nice looking either exoterra tank or aquarium

yes, you should keep hallo singly now that you know that he is a male. you could devise some sort of tank divider as long as it is secure. i have never had an issue with males being able to see eachother from their separate enclosures.

When you have several cresties do you even have them on display or are they in seperate tanks? I could see how that would get pricey if your looking into getting exoterras (What i had been planning) Otherwise how do you house them? (do you have pics?)

i house subadults and adults (groups of females or breeding pairs/trios) in the crested gecko cage that reptile depot makes (second one down: www.reptiledepot.com/reptprices.html), single males in the arboreal rack that nature's spirit makes (third one down: www.nsreptiles.com/shacks.html), and hatchlings and juvies in the kritter keeper rack that anthony caponetto makes (www.acreptiles.com/cages_RhacSystems_baby.htm).

oh wow those are awesome!! thank you for posting those links