Quote Originally Posted by starmom View Post
Females are larger than males when full grown.
Males come to sexual maturity sooner than females.
An '08 female will not become gravid (pregnant) unless a male is introduced and Barry White is playing in the background!!!
I have not seen any reliable personality differences between my males and my females.
I love your questions....it means you are planning things out and are taking responsibility. Kudos!!
Ok, cool deal. I really don't care if I have a male or female, I'm comfortable with both, the only thing that would change my mind about that was the chance of the female becoming gravid yearly. So that puts me at ease a bit. And yeah, after all the looking around I realized that this is definitely something I have to know a little bit about before jumping in to it, so I'm trying to get everything as straight and understood as I can, lol.

Quote Originally Posted by soy.lor.n View Post
The females generally get bigger than the males, and *generally* don't become gravid unless they're bred to a male (like I said though, there seems to be something in the air in TN) I also paid more for my girlie, but I figured it was worth it because I already had the bug and thought that in a few years I might be thinking about breeding her. I don't know of any personality differences really, but it wouldn't surprise me. I guess males are more likely to go off feed. The breeders definitely will know the sex, and although pet stores will often tell you what gender the snake is, it also seems that they won't care to be honest about it. You technically could learn to "pop" the snake to determine the gender, although you can hurt the snake, so I (as a noob) would be afraid to do it.
Yeah, the breeding idea has passed through my mind as a possibility far into the future. That's jumping the gun for now, though, lol. Besides, if I was to ever make that move I'd definitely do it at a later time and try to get parents that have a possibility of popping out some profitable babies. I won't be learning to pop them myself. Way too risky and I might not even be able to make anything of it once I do it. Luckily the name I already have picked out is pretty neutral .