Determining sex of my Panther

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Hi, just looking for some more expert advice on my Panther Cham. Wondering if it is possible to confirm sex, now 7.5 months old. Haven't seen any colours other than grey/brown/beige/black. Purchased a male cham, but had a vet tell me they were pretty sure he was female. Any help appreciated. Notee photos where you can see him completely are 1 month old, pictures of tail area only are today as he was being paranoid so didn't want to freak him out more by handling him.

Thanks for any assistance.
Wayne
 

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jacksun said:
Hi, just looking for some more expert advice on my Panther Cham. Wondering if it is possible to confirm sex, now 7.5 months old. Haven't seen any colours other than grey/brown/beige/black. Purchased a male cham, but had a vet tell me they were pretty sure he was female. Any help appreciated. Notee photos where you can see him completely are 1 month old, pictures of tail area only are today as he was being paranoid so didn't want to freak him out more by handling him.

Thanks for any assistance.
Wayne
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Sounds female. should definetley be able to tell by that time.

Does the tail have a thick base or a skinny base?

here is a male tail
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and a female
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Well I guess I'm off to contact the breeder as we specifically requested and paid $150 extra for a male. We shall see how that goes.

Thanks for all the help.

Regards,
Wayne
 
jacksun said:
Hi, just looking for some more expert advice on my Panther Cham. Wondering if it is possible to confirm sex, now 7.5 months old. Haven't seen any colours other than grey/brown/beige/black. Purchased a male cham, but had a vet tell me they were pretty sure he was female. Any help appreciated. Notee photos where you can see him completely are 1 month old, pictures of tail area only are today as he was being paranoid so didn't want to freak him out more by handling him.

Thanks for any assistance.
Wayne
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jacksun said:
The pictures of her full body are 6 weeks or so ago. Wouldn't sit still today for a photo session. I have nothing to compare her to with regards to size.
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Are you saying that the photos are of a 5-6 month old panther? Looks closer to 2-3 months to me. At 6 months she should be pretty far along.

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This one is a week shy of 6 months. I know there isn't much scale, but she's quite a bit larger than the girl in your photo. Now some develop slower than others, but by 6 months she should be much larger.

It *sounds* to me that the breed ed r you got her from sent you a cham that was way young and because of that, couldn't guarantee the sex. Hopefully this "breeder" will honor your arrangement.

Best of luck!
 
Hashtag ChamLife said:
Are you saying that the photos are of a 5-6 month old panther? Looks closer to 2-3 months to me. At 6 months she should be pretty far along.

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This one is a week shy of 6 months. I know there isn't much scale, but she's quite a bit larger than the girl in your photo. Now some develop slower than others, but by 6 months she should be much larger.

It *sounds* to me that the breed ed r you got her from sent you a cham that was way young and because of that, couldn't guarantee the sex. Hopefully this "breeder" will honor your arrangement.

Best of luck!
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Hi Hashtag, we got him/her beginning of September at which time we were told he was 4 months old. So should be 7.5 months now give or take a week. Even without scale your girl is way chunkier and mine eats well along with calcium and multi's.
 
My Cham on Oct 26th - thus 6 months old based on breeders aging. For scale tip to second knuckle on my pinkie is 1.5 inches.
 

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My Cham on Oct 26th - thus 6 months old based on breeders aging. For scale tip to second knuckle on my pinkie is 1.5 inches.
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Let me see if I can track down the photos of my girl... I just switched phones.

But simply put, something is VERY off on her age. And my girl is "chunky" because she just got done laying her first clutch of eggs, RUDE!! [Lol, I'm teasing of course... she's definitely a tree cow]
 
jacksun said:
My Cham on Oct 26th - thus 6 months old based on breeders aging. For scale tip to second knuckle on my pinkie is 1.5 inches.
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This was her the day she shipped out to me (roughly 3.5 months old). She was about 2.5" StV... so very similar to yours. Even if - which I'm not saying she is/was - your girl was malnourished, she should look like a typical female by 7 months old.

Two of my girls, Delilah had/has MBD courtesy of Petco (first image) [shes just about 1year] and the other is my WC girl (guesstimated to be 2years):

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Both are bigger and obviously more developed than my little girl. (But the little one has the BIGGEST attitude!). Lil bitty is just coming into her "adult body" - her hatch date was 6/27/19. Your girl, even slow to develop should be much further along and MUCH bigger. I'd even say you should have seen her getting fat with her first clutch - though some can make it over a year before they lay. I mean, yea, its possible that shes that stunted... but that would lead me to believe theres something wrong in the gene pool. Otherwise, she came to you at 1-2 months old as she was super teeny tiny. At least, that's my opinion.

Regardless though... hopefully you get you male as you were promised from the get go. If I were you though, I'd be weary of this breeder...
 
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