I have an un-sexed mandarin rat snake. I’ve been doing research whenever I can over the last month plus that I have had it. I hear they can be tricky to get started in food yet mine is an awesome eater thankfully. Little snippy when you first go into the cage but once you get it out he’s as cool as can be and a baby at just 16g. It also has red sides that seem to be coming in more and more each time I get it out which is apparently not common or hard to find.

In my research I came across something that said you can tell the sex by the tails. Females have a long skinny tails. Males have a shorter stubby tail. Is this common for all rat snakes or just this species?

Based on that I think I have a female. What do you guys think.




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