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Anybody candle sex their corns?

I pop everything except adults. Popping baby chondro's usually leaves a slightly deformed tail so I tried candling them,however it proved unreliable.
 
tsthompson said:
I pop everything except adults. Popping baby chondro's usually leaves a slightly deformed tail so I tried candling them,however it proved unreliable.
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I'm just afraid my hands and fingers are too big to pop my little babies. If I were to candle, what would I look for, or look to exclude?
 
I'm quoting the book I have, " In a dimly lit room, place a small light against the tail base of the corn. On males, you will see two dark red lines running from the cloaca toward the tail tip. These represent the blood in the hemipenes. These lines usually extend seven to 14 sub-caudals from the vent. If you see any small, red lines in the female's tail, they will be from the vent, just three to five sob-caudals back. These represent the hemipenial homologs & are essentially functionless in females." It also says thats its only effective on very young snakes & only on pale morphs.
 
You can ID the red tips of the hemipenes in just about ANY pale morph cornsnake: albinos, snows, blizzards, etc. It just takes some comparison and practice...like ALL methods of sexing. Heck, (unless I'm shipping) I usually sex light colored corns via that method and only pop to verify it if the tail shape is a "tweener" or the "prove" it to another person, anyway.
KJ
 
Update ...

Well, I got my possible breeding pair a while ago & candled them right away. They seem to have what they should, so hopefully they are sexed right! Guess I'll know for sure in 2 or 3 years, but it seemed to work very well on these phantoms morphs.
 
When I first got my 07 Amel, Citrus, I candled her and she looked like a female. Several months later I got her probed and shes a female. I'm saying the method works or i reliable but that what happened when I tried it.
 
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