Sexing neonate green anaconda

[anthonym]

Today my neonate green anaconda arrived. ~400g little guy. He is supposed to be a male, but I wanted to double check myself. After doing a bit of searching on sexing greens, I found a lot of conflicting information. Some sites said spur sexing was very accurate, while other sites said this was useless till about 6ft+. Some sites mentioned probing, but nothing about expected depth, while I came across other information that said that probing greens was difficult and that they dont probe like other snakes. Could someone give me some first hand solid information based on experience for sexing a green this small? Much appreciation.

[BAMReptiles]

pop it? cant be that much different than popping a 400g ball?

[FIEND_FO_LYFE]

Pop, or probe ONLY IF YOU ARE CAPABLE OF DOING SO.

[anthonym]

Pop, or probe ONLY IF YOU ARE CAPABLE OF DOING SO.

I've never had much of a knack for popping. If you read my original post, I made note of the fact that the information I came across for probing greens said they don't probe like most snakes. Hence why I'm asking for something more concrete first hand experience than "just probe it." I'm curious why someone would say that, what kind of depths to expect for a male vs. female, etc. Also curious how reliable spur sexing is at this age as well.

[FIEND_FO_LYFE]

I've never had much of a knack for popping. If you read my original post, I made note of the fact that the information I came across for probing greens said they don't probe like most snakes. Hence why I'm asking for something more concrete first hand experience than "just probe it." I'm curious why someone would say that, what kind of depths to expect for a male vs. female, etc. Also curious how reliable spur sexing is at this age as well.

Sorry, what i meant by the "pop or probe" post was, dont do it UNLESS your 100% sure on what your doing. I figure if your posting a "help sex my snake" thread, you wouldnt be 100% on it. haha

I have heard (note that im not 100% sure if this is true) that at 6 months of age, you wont see spurs on a female, just little indentations where the spurs would be. Males should have small spurs.

Might want to contact Ben Renick to see if this is true. He is the one person i would trust on Condas. (no offense to anyone else)

[anthonym]

Thanks Theo. Was able to correctly probe it tonight, was indeed a male A very good looking one at that.

[FIEND_FO_LYFE]

Awesome to hear!

Any pics of the little guy?



EDIT: I clicked your Iherp page, he is dark!!!