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Have you ever made a boo-boo probing???
The reason I'm asking is that I feel like an idiot. A friend of mine who bred hots and colubrids was the one who taught me how to probe. After a few "training" sessions, he said i should practice so that i remenber "the feel" for the difference between males and females. He said the best way to practice is on my own snakes since I already knew the sex of them. This was years ago, and I have since had acquired several more snakes and probed them myself. However, have you ever been wrong? The reason I'm asking is that I had a rescue that I thought probed female...."she" was being very difficult at the time, and wouldn't be still at all, and to avoid more stress and risk of hurting "her", I just put "her" in the quarantine tank with another female that I had got three days before from a reptile show. Well, my bad because two weeks later "she" was locked up with the other girl!!!!! My boyfriend said IMO, "you just "thought" it was a female cause of wishful thinking"........hey, maybe it was cause I just have too many boys!!!
ALL THAT SLITHERS - Ball Python aficionado/keeper
breeder of African soft fur Rats. Keeper of other small exotic mammals.
10 sugar gliders
2 tenrecs
5 jumping spiders
paludarium with fish
Brisingr the albino
Snowy the BEL
Piglet the albino conda hognose
FINALLY got my BEL,no longer breeding snakes. married to mechnut450..
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Re: Have you ever made a boo-boo probing???
I know a breeder who does nothing but breed and sell reptiles, who mis-sexed a ball python, three times in a row, once each year, and only discovered she was a he, when he put in a male to breed "her" and they started sparring.
He tells me that off and on as a laugh on himself, so anyone can make a mistake. No matter how seasoned someone is, they can always bein a rush, or not pay quite enough attention, or just be darned wrong.
Wolfy(who has the probes, but hasn't been instructed yet)
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Re: Have you ever made a boo-boo probing???
Originally Posted by 4theSNAKElady
T Well, my bad because two weeks later "she" was locked up with the other girl!!!!!
what there are no lesbian snakes? I am so disappointed....
~ 1.0.0 Python regius ~ Wild-type ~
~ 1.0.0 Canis familiaris ~ Blue Italian Greyhound ~
~ 0.0.9 Danio rerio~ Wild-type and Glofish
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Re: Have you ever made a boo-boo probing???
Originally Posted by Mendel's Balls
what there are no lesbian snakes? I am so disappointed....
-Twitch.- No lesbian snakes. O_O
Melanie Ryan Seals
2.2 Royal Pythons; Hadrian(het. albino), Lucius(het. hypo), Ophelia(normal) and Regan(het. albino).
1.0 Homo sapien boyfriendidus; Nick AKA Daddy.s
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Re: Have you ever made a boo-boo probing???
Hey, I have heard of males trying to lock up with other males.......hmmmm.....
ALL THAT SLITHERS - Ball Python aficionado/keeper
breeder of African soft fur Rats. Keeper of other small exotic mammals.
10 sugar gliders
2 tenrecs
5 jumping spiders
paludarium with fish
Brisingr the albino
Snowy the BEL
Piglet the albino conda hognose
FINALLY got my BEL,no longer breeding snakes. married to mechnut450..
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Re: Have you ever made a boo-boo probing???
Haha; read my post in the General forum; my "male" is a female. I had it reversed; the one I thought was the female, LaVey, was the sire, and Gobby laid the eggs!
I have horrendously innacurate probing skills, let it be known. But so do the "breeders" who sold be Gobby as "a former male breeder we don't need anymore." .....
-Jen. Back in the hobby after a hiatus!
Ball pythons:
0.1 normal; 1.1 albino. 1.0 pied; 0.1 het pied; 1.0 banana.
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