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Well, that's one way to determine gender!

Tavia

Tavia

Elemental Exotics
I bought my first corn snake, Tavi, in Sept '08 from Petco and because of that, never knew its gender. Had been thinking that Tavi was a male because s/he had gone off feed for the last 56 days. But today when I went to get her out to see if she wanted to eat, I lifted the water bowl off her and this was what I found.
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She has never been near another snake, without a cage between them anyway since I got her.
 
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Aw- she's so proud of her clutch! Well, now you know for sure! It would have been fun to have a guess the sex by tail shape thread first!!
 
Retained sperm? Hmm!

It'll be interesting what you get since you don't know who the sire is!

Atleast you have three nice pump eggs.

Do you plan to incubate?
 
Nanci, actually I did do a guess the gender by tail shape thread, maybe two years ago, on her. She's got a tweener tail!
Random8, that's the really weird thing, three of those eggs looked kind of good. But she was a hatchling when I bought her, my guess was a late '07 to early '08 and she has never been near enough to another corn to have done the deed since then. So they'd pretty much have to be infertile too. But I did rig up an incubator for them just in case. Been racking my brains too, trying to think of any point in time that she was even out at the same time as my male and coming up with nothing.
 
From the bit of searching I did this morning, there have been a few incidences with corns that *might* have been parthenogenesis but from the discussions I've seen on it about the New Caledonia gecko species, none of them meet the requirements to be considered scientifically *proven.* However, it sounds like its not outside the realm of possibility, so I'll keep incubating these and see if anything happens.
 
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