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I have a beautiful Ornate Box Turtle. When I bought it, the person told me it was a male. I have looked at pictures of males versus females and now I am thoroughly confused as to it's sex.
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Ornate Box Turtle Sex
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I have a beautiful Ornate Box Turtle. When I bought it, the person told me it was a male. I have looked at pictures of males versus females and now I am thoroughly confused as to it's sex.
This is my female. She has dark brown eyes.
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I love your large pictures. How did you do them. I will have to take a couple better pictures of the Ornate. I think it is a she also but she has such bright eyes and orange scales on her front feet.
From what I have learned males will have red eyes and a concave plastron. I have a male, see his picture below. His name is Rusty and he is around 11 years old. Hope that helps! 
Welcome to TFO by the way!!
Welcome to TFO by the way!! 
Hi Krista:
Your box turtle is more than likely a male, but I'd have to see the bottom and tail area to be sure. You can't always go by the "red eye=male" school of thought because on a very rare occasion, females have been seen with red eyes.
Your box turtle is more than likely a male, but I'd have to see the bottom and tail area to be sure. You can't always go by the "red eye=male" school of thought because on a very rare occasion, females have been seen with red eyes.
Welcome to TFO.
And like what Mary and Yvonne said, a tail shot or a plastron shot would be what we need to sex your ornate boxie.
And like what Mary and Yvonne said, a tail shot or a plastron shot would be what we need to sex your ornate boxie.
I have a female ornate with red eyes - so you can't always go by that. I like to look at the totality of the evidence - concavity, eye color, shell shape and tail length.
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