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Hi Everyone I'm Amanda :)

TigerLilyLeos

TigerLilyLeos

Mom of 2 and a Zoo
My Name is Amanda I live in Phoenix, Arizona with my Hubby, 2 kids, my Sister and her Hubby. They have 2 dogs (Chihuahuas yuck!). I have a mini zoo, 1 dog (lab/ shepherd mix) male, 5 ferrets (4 f, 1 m), 6 leopard geckos (5 f, 1 m), 2 Anoles (1 brown f, 1 Green m), 1 house geckos (1 f,1 m), 1 red eared slider (possibly male, unsure though), and tank of fish. and my most recent addition and the reason I'm here is my new Corn snake :) I'm not sure of the gender, I haven't had a chance to look yet, I believe it is a amelanistic it weighs either 5.1 or 5.4 grams (I forgot to write it down when I moved it to its cage, dummy me) I'll check again tomorrow before I feed it for the first time. Maybe I can get a estimate of its length too.

I have a couple questions,
1. how big do they have to be before you can use the tail tapering as a judge of sex?
2. and I can't remember what order the genders go in in the little 2:3:0 things is it male:female:unknown ? I think so but I just want to make sure I wanted to use it in my signature

Thank you everyone in advance, I think you all have beautiful snakes :)
Amanda

Here is a pic i took earlier... What morph do you think, I really don't know enough to be sure...
 

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Nice looking little amel. Welcome to the forum. Tons of info here, all you need to do is ask. You are correct on the gender numbers. Enjoy.
 
Thanks Everyone, I love her colors too, I think it might be female, she was crawling around a minute ago and i looked at her tail closer and I'm pretty sure it looked like a female, we have an adult male at school (not that the comparison is alot of help lol he's probably 5+ft long) but I know the shape differences, and it looks like a female, she's not very old though I think she's just a hatchling and I don't know how that changes as they age. I've watched Kathy Loves video several times and feel pretty confident about trying the popping method. May be tomorrow when I have her out.
 
Maize411 said:
You have a gorgous amel!! I love his/her colors!! have ya decided on a name yet?
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No name yet I was waiting to figure out if its a male or female, maybe Ruby for a female...

Again thanks for all the replys, I took her (wishful thinking) out tonight, and her weight was 4.9 grams and length was @ 10.5 inches (so am I correct in thinking this is a hatchling??), and i took ventral pictures and tried popping her, nothing popped, but I wasn't sure how much pressure I didn't want to hurt her, her tail tapers right at the vent, It really didn't seem that there was any room for hemipens there but she's so small, I don't know... I counted scales from the vent to the tail and there were 70 pairs, so I guess I'll have to count the ones in front of the vent too and do the calculations at least I have a good pic for that. I fed her a 1.5 gram pinky and took lots of pictures so i'll post some later.

Thanks again
 
Oh that is a gorgeous Amel! So full of color, which is why I love Amels so much. Of course when I bought Zeke, my Amel, at the reptile store, they called Zeke just 'Albino'.

I mean he/she is lacking all the colors of a normal corn, but she's still gorgeous and just as beautiful as all the other types. I was so amazed to find out the different types, colors and breeds!

I have to admit, I might have many more in the future.

:D
 
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