Male vs Female... Which do you prefer?

[Kaaa]

I just want to know what you prefer to have would you prefer to buy a Male or Female? Why?

[rabernet]

Depends on what your goals are. If you think you'll want to breed one day, then I'd be picking up females that can be growing before you decide what you want your first project to be.


If you don't plan on breeding, I don't think that I would have a preference one way or the other. I don't notice much difference in temperment.

One might choose a male if they don't want quite as girthy or as long a snake as a female.

[Blu Mongoose]

I'm not big on breeding so I prefer females since I prefer larger snakes. I would go with a green anaconda but I would be on my own handling it. I feel those are snakes better left to the people who have experienced help.

[Kaaa]

Depends on what your goals are. If you think you'll want to breed one day, then I'd be picking up females that can be growing before you decide what you want your first project to be.

No, sorry i wasn't asking for myself and my plans. I know what my plans are. I just want to know what everyone elses opinions for themselves are.
Thanks for the advise though.

[rabernet]

No, sorry i wasn't asking for myself and my plans. I know what my plans are. I just want to know what everyone elses opinions for themselves are.
Thanks for the advise though.

I was using "you" in general terms.

For myself, as far as normals, it will be females. For morphs, depends again what my plans are - if I decide to do bumblebees, I have a male pastel, so I'd want a female spider, or a female cinnie for pewters.

[python.princess]

i voted female just because i have two males and i think it might be fun to breed one day.

[AzureN1ght]

When I bought Auryn, I had no intentions of breeding and males tend to be smaller than females--so I went with a male. I'm still in college and it would be easier, I felt, to house a 1-2 year old male BP (he'll be 2 around when I graduate ) than a female that might get larger.

That, and at the time, a male Pastel was affordable for me, so I was able to have a morph as a first BP--where a female morph was way out of my price range!

When I'm in grad school, I might get Auryn a girlfriend...Honeybees are my dream morph, but that $7,000 price tag is a little out of my reality zone. So, he might get a Spider girlfriend and there might be some breeding down the road for me. It'll take awhile to get a female reared up, though Besides...I miss having a littler snake around--Auryn's getting so big!

So, I guess if you've got breeding plans, females in abundance are preferred with a speckling of studly males. If you just want a pet--females are a little larger than males, so I guess it depends on what you want in a snake?

[recycling goddess]

well i personally think females are always better... why you ask? because when we picked up our first ball the breeder told us... "an adult male is really hard to find a home for, if you find you need to rehome it, but an adult female is always in demand."

[killerkid57]

female cause i prefer larger snakes also if i can get it for the same as a male is always good

[Kizerk]

there really is no difference, unless you're talking about breeding and size, but if i had to pick, i would pick females only because they get bigger