Does this look like a male?

[BonnieLorraine]

The person who is purchasing Nibbler wants to start looking for an unrelated mate for him. I'm guessing by the stripe it's a boy, but given that these were my first babies, I'm not very experienced on sexing them. If anyone knows of a reliable way to sex smallish juvies, please let me know.

 

[pakinjak]

Looks like a dude to me.

 

[thorrshamri]

Absolutely, it's a little male

 

[pakinjak]

Sikorae are reliably sexable most of the time. When there's stripe head to tail it's a male, patches at shoulders and britches it mostly means bitches.

 

[thorrshamri]

it mostly means bitches.

Watch your language please :biggrin:

 

[BonnieLorraine]

The first 4 that hatched all had that stripe, along with white patches on the shoulders and tail. The last two have the patches, but no stripe. Could these possibly have a higher rate for males at a higher temp? My last two, being laid later in the fall, were incubated the coldest (72 for most of it, vs 74). They also took a full 2 weeks longer to hatch. I'll be curious to see what these last two hatch out as, since they were also kept cool and are taking ages to come out. At the last clutches rate, they should be emerging in about one and a half weeks.

 

[pakinjak]

I've seen a male that looked like a female, but never a female that had the dorsal striping like the one you've pictured. Maybe someone will chime in with actual personal experience, but there's not evidence that uroplatus are temp sexed as of yet.

 

[thorrshamri]

As for me, when I said male, I was not only considering that stripe, though I would tend to agree with Pakinjack here. The animal depicted on your photos has visible longitudinal "cracks" on its back which is too quite typical of males