David Gamblin
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How do you sex musk turtles?
Musk turtles
- Thread starter David Gamblin
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What kind of musk turtle, and how big is it?
If you post pictures here, we have a number of members who can assist with the identification.
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Russian Rehab
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They have to be full grown to tell about 3-4 years and around 4-5 inches. first pic is my male second is female the easiest sign is to check the bottom of the shell. Males shells will be indented so that they can mount the females during breeding. Female shells will be flat or even a little bit rounded out so they have room to hold eggs.
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They are beautiful!They have to be full grown to tell about 3-4 years and around 4-5 inches. first pic is my male second is female the easiest sign is to check the bottom of the shell. Males shells will be indented so that they can mount the females during breeding. Female shells will be flat or even a little bit rounded out so they have room to hold eggs.
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What about their tails? Isn't the male's tail a longer and/or thicker?
Russian Rehab
Member
Yes it is you are correct! I suggested going by plastrome though because if you only have one turtle to look at its kind of difficult to judge what is a "longer" tail and what id "shorter" while convex vs. concave plastrome is pretty straight forward even if you only have one turtle to look at.
