ALWAYS have a professional double check your snake sex IDing!!

[joepythons]

Ouch sorry that happened.One thing about sexing corns(its not 100% though) you can look at how the tail tapers after the vent.The females taper sooner BUT its still best to double check them by probing

[briz]

This is why I pop my snakes several times before selling them. Some will do it once and that's it what they get the first time is the sex they mark it as. I agree though never trust anyone and always check new snakes or have them checked by somebody who knows how to.

[FIEND_FO_LYFE]

Here is the vet i go to when I use a vet...


http://www.birdandexotic.com/

shes in Seattle, and Tracy B. is SUPER awesome.

[mommanessy247]

i bought my first "female" ball python years ago but...vet said it was a male. so what i named as deirdre [deer-dra] ...poor thing died before i could re-name it.

[seeya205]

I always ask them to pop in front of me and then I will ask another vendor to pop it! Unless you see hemipenes then you know for sure but with females, double check!

[moravaguy]

ok around this time last year i bought a spider pastel and black pastel, my first soon to be breeding project, i was going to make up bees with the spider and pastel, spider was supoosed to be female and pastel male. well about a week ago i got in my own probe kit from ebay its just a small one, pulled out the black pastel (at this time unknown sex) comes out boy, then the pastel thats supposed to be a male, checks out, now time for the spider..................................bout lost the damn probe up in HIM!!!!!!!!!!

so now im just picking up normal females and pastels left and right

so yea learn to do it your self and double check and the right probe makes all the difference, its not that hard anyway just be carefull, watch people do it and you should get it.

[rabernet]

ok around this time last year i bought a spider pastel and black pastel, my first soon to be breeding project, i was going to make up bees with the spider and pastel, spider was supoosed to be female and pastel male. well about a week ago i got in my own probe kit from ebay its just a small one, pulled out the black pastel (at this time unknown sex) comes out boy, then the pastel thats supposed to be a male, checks out, now time for the spider..................................bout lost the damn probe up in HIM!!!!!!!!!!

so now im just picking up normal females and pastels left and right

so yea learn to do it your self and double check and the right probe makes all the difference, its not that hard anyway just be carefull, watch people do it and you should get it.

Did you probe both sides of the spider? Sometimes, someone inexperienced with probing can actually injure the female and it will go deep like a male. If the other side only probes shallow, then it may still be a female. Probe very gently and as soon as you meet resistance, stop.

[moravaguy]

Did you probe both sides of the spider? Sometimes, someone inexperienced with probing can actually injure the female and it will go deep like a male. If the other side only probes shallow, then it may still be a female. Probe very gently and as soon as you meet resistance, stop.

um...........are you saying i dont know what im doing? i did not ram the probe in there hot shot, it fell in there and yes both sides i know what im doing..........so please do you ever doubt me again just cuz my profile says i just joined dont mean i just started collecting balls.

[Python Dreams]

I mis-sexed a male Ball Python this year that I sold for just under 10k. The buyer (who has probably produced more Ball Pythons than everyone in this thread combined) also mis-sexed it when I handed it to him in person. A few months later I get the call that he popped and then probed it and that it was a female. He did this multiple times to ensure that no mistakes were made again! I had to dig up a bunch of cash and buy it back since he was not looking for females at all. Bummer!
My point is, that it can happen to anyone.

[rabernet]

um...........are you saying i dont know what im doing? i did not ram the probe in there hot shot, it fell in there and yes both sides i know what im doing..........so please do you ever doubt me again just cuz my profile says i just joined dont mean i just started collecting balls.

Um.......did I say that YOU were the one that rammed the probe in there "hot shot"?

No - I said that sometimes when someone doesn't know what they are doing (that someone being someone BEFORE you got the snake) they could injure the snake.

Calm down Skippy. Sometimes when you presume you know what someone meant, you put your foot in your mouth.