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[snakesRkewl]

I think everyone should learn to properly sex their snakes well before ever pairing them.
Trusting other people to sex your snakes is well, a great way to one day make a post like this one...

Sorry

Maybe his name should be chuckles

[Kaorte]

I think everyone should learn to properly sex their snakes well before ever pairing them.
Trusting other people to sex your snakes is well, a great way to one day make a post like this one...

Sorry

Maybe his name should be chuckles

I made sure to learn how to sex before I even thought about breeding. I just never sexed this particular snake! There is nothing I can do about it now. I learned to sex years after I got the snake.

The funny thing is I could have sworn I probed all my females this year before I started pairing. I might have forgot to probe the spider since "she" was fasting.

So far I have had pretty good luck getting what I paid for. This is only the first mis-sexed animal I have purchased, and I didn't even realize it til this morning! But it really helps clear up a lot of things: Why he looks so tiny next to other females of a similar size and why he isn't eating at the moment. At least I can stop worrying!

I have bought 6 new balls while in Afghanistan and plan to probe them all once I get home. For that matter I plan to probe the snakes that I already have just to be sure! I think I've gotten sperm plugs from my male pastel and I popped both females that I currently own but why not check with probes to be sure, right? Sorry to hear that and better luck with your next pickups.

Fortunately, all my new pickups are the correct genders. I probed them all before they went into QT.

I can pop and that's usually how I check, I think I've popped all of my snakes at some point. For some reason pushing something out seemed safer than sticking something in so I learned popping first.

I hope that your spider is the only one who isn't what he/she was as.

See, I just never felt comfortable popping. Probing is super easy for me so that is what I do. And it is very hard if not impossible to pop adults. Probing on the other hand is a piece of cake!

Me too.. Everyone (even the snakes I have sexed myself) will be getting probed when I get home.