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    Question Second (or third) guessing gender

    I try to pop Dannie every couple of weeks just to get the hang of popping in case I need to use it again later on. I know at one point I said it was a boy and another time I said it was a girl But now I'm thinking I had the technique right, just wasn't naming the parts right!

    So far this is the best picture I can get of Dannie after I popped. I used my pointer finger to hold the tail back and took the picture with my other hand, since nobody is home for a while:
    http://i1076.photobucket.com/albums/...1/GEDC0942.jpg

    So I think what I originally thought were hemipenes, are just the scent glands (on the far left and right). Is the caved in area, that kind of looks like a hole, a good enough way to tell? I've never seen any hemipenes that I know of, when I think back now, at least not bigger than the scent glands on the sides. And I'm going to assume the little hole is the 'female part' I don't know how BP mating works but but I know sex ed for humans, and I figure one (or both?) of the males hemipenes is inserted into this hole for reproduction, right?

    Thanks everyone!
    Last edited by Klogue1; 04-27-2012 at 01:26 PM.

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    If it means anything, Dannie is currently 433 grams (feeding tomorrow, I always weigh in the day before) and just at 2'6" or 7" in length. I got Dannie on 1/11/2012, unkown birth date but was fairly young, probably a hatchling.

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    Looks like a girl.
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    Re: Second (or third) guessing gender

    Quote Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant View Post
    Looks like a girl.
    x2

    EDIT: BTW, that may be the best self taken, one-handed popping photo I've seen yet on this Forum!
    Last edited by Slim; 04-27-2012 at 02:53 PM.
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    Re: Second (or third) guessing gender

    Quote Originally Posted by Slim View Post
    x2

    EDIT: BTW, that may be the best self taken, one-handed popping photo I've seen yet on this Forum!
    Haha I was thinking the same thing. Most of them are blurry or you cant even tell what it is.

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