Merauke babies and the gender game

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Merauke babies and the gender game

Postby Susann » Thu Oct 25, 2012 1:06 pm

The babies are almost 5 months old, and even though it can be hard (harder than normal, that is) to tell gender in juvenile skinks, I thought I'd put it up for speculation anyway. To make it even harder, some of them refused to lay straight, and some refused to lay still!
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Re: Merauke babies and the gender game

Postby xxmonitorlizardxx » Thu Oct 25, 2012 1:24 pm

SOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!!!
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Re: Merauke babies and the gender game

Postby Susann » Thu Oct 25, 2012 1:27 pm

BUT, ML, ARE THEY BOYS OR GIRLS???
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Re: Merauke babies and the gender game

Postby xxmonitorlizardxx » Thu Oct 25, 2012 1:32 pm

1. Male
2. Really bad angle, but Female
3. Male
4. Male(Possibly Female)
5. Female(Possibly Male)
6. Male(Looks alot like both genders)
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Re: Merauke babies and the gender game

Postby Richard.C » Thu Oct 25, 2012 1:36 pm

U calling it a gender bender ml,lol

There looking great susan,number 6 cries out female to me,dainty head i guess,im not overly familiar with meurakes though and some species can be tricky,especially bubs
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Re: Merauke babies and the gender game

Postby Richard.C » Thu Oct 25, 2012 1:40 pm

1 ,3 and 4 id lean towards female as well,5 looks fat nosed in comparison to rest of head so male to me and 2 possably boy as well
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Re: Merauke babies and the gender game

Postby Bird_Brain » Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:30 pm

Richard.C wrote:1 ,3 and 4 id lean towards female as well,5 looks fat nosed in comparison to rest of head so male to me and 2 possably boy as well

Exactly what I was thinking. Man are they real lookers!
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Re: Merauke babies and the gender game

Postby Rani-May » Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:35 pm

wow they are gorgeous
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Re: Merauke babies and the gender game

Postby Fatal_S » Thu Oct 25, 2012 6:08 pm

My guess!
1: Female
2: Male
3: Female
4: Female
5: Male
6: Male

I can't wait for them to grow up so we can find out the real answer!

EDIT: I keep flip-flopping on 3 and 6 -.-' I'm so bad at guessing gender.
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Re: Merauke babies and the gender game

Postby Bluish » Fri Oct 26, 2012 2:56 am

As a noobie guess I agree 2 and 5 look the most male. 1 and 4 look the most female.
Gorgeous juvies!!
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Re: Merauke babies and the gender game

Postby xxmonitorlizardxx » Fri Oct 26, 2012 4:34 am

Bluish wrote:As a noobie guess I agree 2 and 5 look the most male. 1 and 4 look the most female.
Gorgeous juvies!!

May I ask why?
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Re: Merauke babies and the gender game

Postby Spindown » Fri Oct 26, 2012 1:11 pm

Lovely! I'm negotiating a breeding loan for a male merauke for Creep, although I'm not going to get my hopes up as Meraukes, I hear, are notoriously hard to breed.
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Re: Merauke babies and the gender game

Postby Karen » Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:14 pm

Loooooong tails. They're gorgeous Susan!
• 0.1.0 Merauke - Sylvia
• 0.0.1 Northern - Tiberi
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Re: Merauke babies and the gender game

Postby Richard.C » Sat Oct 27, 2012 1:40 am

Get the cycling right and the pairings and they should breed like any other species
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