Today I was finally able to pop, so that I can evert what is inside.
However, I have a hard time telling the males and females for babies, because the male hemipenes on a baby is very small, and the females also have scent glands which look similar to small hemipenes of an immature male.
The videos and photos I see online that are of ball python BABIES are usually very hard to see the details of the female scent glands. They are not very clear nor focused enough.
I have a known male that I popped and red hemipenes everted, but they weren't very big. Another one of unknown sex has also similar sized "heads" evert out, but they are just pink like the rest.
Can someone tell me how to tell the difference between a hemipene which is small on a baby snake, vs. the scent glands on a female snake?
Do the female scent glands also come out by "inflating" when popped like the hemipenes? (Kind of like an inverted baloon being blown back up the correct way)?