Boy or Girl

[claireree]

We have recently been given 2 pythons but they are both housed together as we are waiting to finish of their viv the problem is that a friend now wants one which is ok but I want to keep the girl, they are are about 7 & 8 years old is there a easy way to sex them.

[Emilio]

You can set up a vet appointment for both to check there overall health and sex. Or you could probably find a herp shop around town to help you sex them. Good luck I wouldn't recommend that you try yourself somethings come with time, I know I was terrified to hurt my first one someone taught me how and its easy once you get the hang of it.

[claireree]

ok cheers is it not as easy as a corn with the tail, there is a def difference between the 2 tails.

[rishnack]

8ball has a great vid on popping, its super easy and gives a good visual on the sex of the snake, so theres no second guessing once you see there junk

[jglass38]

8ball has a great vid on popping, its super easy and gives a good visual on the sex of the snake, so theres no second guessing once you see there junk

An amateur at popping isn't likely to be able to pop a 7 year old snake. I'm pretty experienced at it and still have trouble with older snakes that have full muscle control.

I suggest a vet visit or finding someone local to you that knows how to probe.

[claireree]

Thanks for that, they are both eating great 2 mice every 7-10 days and my son has now decided he wants to keep the bigger one of the two anyway as he says it is easier to handle so will keep that one but make a appointment with the vet anyway just to see what sex it is.

We also have 4 eggs in the incubator due to hatch in a couple of weeks any idea what price we should sell them for once we get them feeding well, I have no idea as I have never had these before. The pet shop up the road had a normal one adult for €250 which I thought was a lot, mine are both normals.