Hi everyone, since my last post about future breeding i went on a mission to find out the sex of Monty.
a friend has corn snakes and showed me how to pop them, its simple and harmless if done gently/firmy/swiftly and said its the same for royals.
i know a lot of people will say only get someone who has done it before on royals but i was 100% happy i could do it properly on my snake.

i went home and examined this article ( http://www.vpi.com/publications/dete..._sex_of_snakes ) to check before i did it.

after that i went and got monts out and did it with no problem, he didnt mind at all, he just wondered what i was doing with his bits

now the problem i have is telling the difference between female and male! by looking at the two pics on the link above it looks like a female as i could see what looked like scent gland papillae, kind of like little ants eggs either side of the very slightly inverted cloaca.

i would have taken a pic but didnt have a spare hand
please can you let me know what it sounds like to you, it would be very very helpful.

kind regards, mike...