Sexing help! Please

[mk2golfadam]

Please could somebody please confirm the sex of my checkered garters. They were sold to me as 1 male and 2 females but I'm convinced they're all males, I have had them for about 20months and no sign of breeding which also makes me believe they are all the same sex. Please can somebody that is competent at visually sexing animals leave me their email address and ill send pictures that way. Only reason is because I don't know how to embed photos from my phone onto the thread, thanks for any replays :)

[guidofatherof5]

I'll give it a go. PM sent with email address.

[mk2golfadam]

Brilliant thanks. I have done my best with the photos the first one is 108grams and 2.5 ft long the second is 127 grams and nudging 3ft the last one is 30 grams and is 1.5 ft thanks again :)

[guidofatherof5]

Any chance you can send up/down photos only and label them 1,2,3,etc.
Sorry to be picky. I did see one female in there for sure but find the others more difficult. Having uniform photos would be very helpful.
Any chance you can post them on the forum to allow more perspective on this?

[mk2golfadam]

Hey thanks for your help glad to here I have one female at least, what ill do is ill get more photos 2 of each snake and label the photos and post them up on the forum tomorrow, thanks for your help.

[mk2golfadam]

Okay managed to get pictures of the snakes all held in the same way and in the same position I will stick them on the forum tomorrow. But will email you them now and will label them snake 1 snake 2 etc :) thanks

[Greg'sGarters]

It can be hard to visually sex garter snakes. Your best bet is to wait until the next reptile show and pick up a probing kit. Or if you don't have any reptile shows near you, go to Sexing probes 3 piece set (http://lllreptile.com/store/catalog/reptile-supplies/reptile-husbandry-tools/-/sexing-probes-3-piece-set/) and order yourself one online, it's only $7.99. Hope this helps!

[RedSidedSPR]

Probing is not necessary.

[Greg'sGarters]

Probing is not necessary.

You're right, probing is not necessary but it does give a fairly accurate result. Although if you don't want to, you don't have to.

[mk2golfadam]

Thanks Greg I might consider it all 4 opinions I've had so far from visually sexing have matched up so I am fairly confident. Thanks anyway and I'm sure it is a good way to know for sure :)

[Greg'sGarters]

Anytime! If you have anymore questions PM me.

[RedSidedSPR]

Thanks Greg I might consider it all 4 opinions I've had so far from visually sexing have matched up so I am fairly confident. Thanks anyway and I'm sure it is a good way to know for sure :)

I feel visually sexing is very accurate. I know I wasn't sure about the second snake, but go with the other members opinions on that one and you should be all good

[EasternGirl]

Just to let you know...to post pics to the forum...go up to the little icon that looks like a picture above the area where you post. The icon is right next to the icon that looks like a piece of film strip. Click on that and it will give you a choice between uploading from a link or your computer...click on computer and it then you can click on browse and it will allow you to browse through pics you have on your computer. Open the pic you want to upload and then click upload.

[Greg'sGarters]

I feel visually sexing is very accurate. I know I wasn't sure about the second snake, but go with the other members opinions on that one and you should be all good

No, visual sexing can be accurate, especially if you get the same result from multiple people. I'm just saying, that is might be worth it. I am in no way saying that visual sexing isn't accurate.

[RedSidedSPR]

Ok, well, still, if 4 people say its male I don't think a probing is at all necessary