sexing pythons by the tail???????

[Snakefood]

So can you visually sex a BP the way you can a corn?? (I know not 100%)
But can you make an educated guess from the length and width of the tail from the cloaca?

[youngster]

I think that's only colubrids but I'm not sure.

[UwabamiReptiles]

As far as I know, bps can only be sexed by probing or popping. The tail thing I believe is just for colubrids like youngster said. I'm sure it can be used for other colubrids but I've only personally known it to be used on corns.

[youngster]

You can use it with garters too

[jaleely]

so how do you do corns? I'm fairly sure i have a female. I also picked up two balls from the pound and have noooo clue *lol*

[CDN_Blood]

Royals are fairly easy to sex visually if they're old enough (3 years or so). Males will have a rather distinct bulge where their equipment is, fairly large spurs and a longer tail than a female of the same size, whereas females won't have the bulge, will have relatively small spurs and a shorter tail by comparison.

This isn't the case with all boids. Carpet pythons are a good example of that - you simply cannot tell visually. Males and females can not only have the same sized spurs and tail lengths, but even probing them is unreliable, so most of the time the best way to sex a Carpet is to pop it as a freshly hatched baby. I don't recommend popping adult snakes of any species.

[mykee]

Only way to sex a ball python is to pop or to probe.