help sexing...

[Cazador]

Each method has it's unique problems. Counting from a shed can be very easy, but sometimes the last little bit near the tail spike doesn't get inverted, and sometimes (rarely) this section actually breaks off and must be removed from the snake separately. Don't get me wrong, this can be a very easy and reliable method, but you also have to wait until your snake sheds before getting an answer (unless you've saved a previous shed).
Rick

[GarterGuy]

LOL....I have no problems with that. I have almost every single shed from every single snake that I've ever had. Lost a few to dermesteds, but I've got some that are over 25yrs. old (the skins...not the snakes!) I have sheds from my first pet snake, a Manitoba T.s.parietalis, that I got when I was 10! Yeh, I'm a pack rat!

[Stefan-A]

Yes, you are.

I just saved the first shed from my first snake.

[nessy]

what about your parietalis Rick?

[Cazador]

I have T.s. concinnus and T. ordinoides. Bob has the T.s. parietalis, and he got 85-86 subcaudal scales. Hopefully, we'll get some more photos of the tail area of different snakes as people are bringing them out of brumation this spring. They're easy to photograph when they're still moving slow.
Rick

[zirliz]

This is an interesting thread I've been wondering how you sex these I'm pretty sure one of mine is a female the other is totally uncooperative

[suzoo]

This is my adult female T. Radix, see how she gets smaller around after the vent


This is my adult male T. Radix, see how he does not taper so much after the vent, just goes on gradually