Male or Female?

[voidz]

I had bought her as a female however, she appears to be growing a bulge. I took a couple photos to check her pores but the photos aren't the best and I'm having a hard time checking. Anyways, here's the photos;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/86599118@N07/8165176255/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/86599118@N07/8165211564/


Thanks!

[satomi325]

I want to say male....

[OctagonGecko729]

Looks like a male but without a macro close up shot I couldn't guarantee. The picture is too far out for me to see any pores or lack thereof.

[voidz]

Looks like a male but without a macro close up shot I couldn't guarantee. The picture is too far out for me to see any pores or lack thereof.

yah sorry about that, i dont have a camera and my phone wont focus when i get really close.

[Evenstar]

Impossible to tell. Some females develop a fatty bulge there. You can't know for sure unless you actually see pores. Get a 30x jeweler's loupe and use that instead of your camera. What's this gecko's gram weight and how old is it??

[voidz]

Impossible to tell. Some females develop a fatty bulge there. You can't know for sure unless you actually see pores. Get a 30x jeweler's loupe and use that instead of your camera. What's this gecko's gram weight and how old is it??

She's 19grams and I'm not exactly sure about 'her' age but she's around a year-ish I believe. The bulge only recently started to grow prominent and I'll try to get a better picture, I understand it's quite hard w/o a good zoom

[Evenstar]

It's almost impossible to zoom in far enough with a camera unless you have a significant macro lens. A 30x loupe is not expensive and not something to do without if you're going to be working with geckos.

19gms is kind of the point where breeders will be comfortable selling a gecko as female if they are not seeing pores. But that can change. Hopefully, yours will simply be developing that fatty bulge and no pores will show up.

[OctagonGecko729]

Some males will wait till they hit 24-28 grams before dropping a bulge though. Typically its 16-22 though.

[voidz]

It's almost impossible to zoom in far enough with a camera unless you have a significant macro lens. A 30x loupe is not expensive and not something to do without if you're going to be working with geckos.

19gms is kind of the point where breeders will be comfortable selling a gecko as female if they are not seeing pores. But that can change. Hopefully, yours will simply be developing that fatty bulge and no pores will show up.

I really hope so! I badly wanted a female, but if not...ohwell!