Need help ASAP with sexing these redfoots

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one of these is mine and I know the sex.....the other is a prospect to add to my herd with a claimed sex ... Which one is male and female....thanks for playing.........:D
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sorry the top pic is so little, it was an email
 

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Well the big picture is a female. The small one looks like a male if anything to me because the tail looks pretty long but its a small pic so I dont know you might need to get that picture a little bigger.
 

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Top one looks like female, not sure about the other, will need bigger and better photo
 

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hmmmm thats what I was afraid of.... Neither are full grown but the larger pic is a male for sure....its mine and Ive seen him "flash" and all that.... he has a very concave plastron and hour glass shell, the littrle pic is one I am thinking about buying and is clainmed to be female....but I'm not completely convinced, from some other small pics I have seen of "her" it does looks like a fairly flat plastron and cant see any evidence of hours glass shaped carapace, but the tail region looks kinda male to me too....... I always looked for a wide opening around the tail should I take a chance? the lady that has her for sale is asking a very fair price and said she got her from a breeder about a year ago.....
 

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Wow that looks like a tiny tail for a male redfoot but it is sideways so I guess it could just be masking the size. My male redfoot always has his tail out when hes picked up and its very long. If she is a sub adult female I could see her getting it from a breeder but if it was a breeder then I dont know why a breeder would sell just a female to someone.
 

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Yes. My males tail is sideways and the pic is deceiving, it is quite long..... I guess this lady bought 2 females and was maybe gonna breed then decided not to...... Thanks for all the help!
 

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Wow- by everything I can see in the bottom photo, I would have put 90% odds that it was a female. Is it just that misleading of a photo? How big are these two, really?
 

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they are both about 10 " still a bit young but I have seen the one in the large pics private parts.........the smaller pic is hard to tell..
 
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