I'm going to need to learn how to pop or probe balls. I thought the probing looked much more risky and complicated so I thought I'd try and learn the popping method instead. I was looking up some information on this and got this from a web site.
A safer method of sexing juvenile snakes is the "popping" of the male hemipenes. The animal is held inverted in the left hand, with gentle finger pressure just forward of the cloaca. The ball of the right thumb is placed on the tail, about twenty scales behind the cloaca. The right thumb is then rolled forward toward the cloaca. This pressure on the tail will cause the hemipenes of the male snake to be everted.
What happens if it's a girl? And is there anything else I should know about on this before I attempt to do this.