One of my girls is a male... Now what?

[Rhetoric]

I had my 2 smaller tegus outside a few minutes ago and one of them pooped.. Not a big deal except the hemipenis I saw.. VERY obvious. I had seen lots of poop in the enclosure but never seen them doing the deed. The tegu that was a girl and is now male is slightly larger, heavier for sure and about an inch or two longer.

Should I take the other one to the vet and have it probed? I don't want to try anything at home but I've also read about the dangers of probing. I don't want any of my tegus to be injured. At the same time I don't want to end up with eggs in the future.

They've been living together for about a year, no issues. I don't think either of them are sexually mature, they're almost 2 but fairly small for their age.

If I have 2 males and 1 female would it be alright if I put the males in the top enclosure and the girl in the bottom (2ft smaller in depth)? It wouldn't be something rushed, they all get along no issues there. If I did do this I would remove all of the substrate, wash everything to make sort of a fresh start.

Would it be better to just have a 3rd enclosure? Any other thoughts?

I'm glad I found out now, I don't see anything that looks like jowls on the "female" that is now male. No spurs, its weird. But I am %99.999 sure I saw a hemipenis. Maybe you can tell me if you think hes got any jowl-age?

One of the albums is the male, hes got a darker head and spots on his body.
http://s1109.photobucket.com/albums/h436/rhetoricx/Male%20with%20spots/

The other is the one that might still be female, also does she look like a regular black and white? Her head seems really light and a different shape compared to the other 2 I have.. Theres a video of her too, the day after I got her, she didn't eat the mice but it shows more of her color.
http://s1109.photobucket.com/albums/h436/rhetoricx/female%20tegu/

 

[reptastic]

Yeah thats definately looks like a male, as for the head shape her head is shaped differently because she is well a she lol, males have larger wider heads than females as far as jowls he should be showing signs of them soon if its a he, without signs of spurs its hard to say, my giants spurs are clearly visible and he is 10 mos. And 27" even my b/w is showing signs of them and he is 23"

 

[Rhetoric]

I lied he has spurs, they're just suuuper small. Like 2 zits on the outside right next/slightly behind his vent.
What do you guys suggest for housing? Should I get him his own enclosure if the 3rd tegu is a female? Can I move my larger male up and the female down?
I still don't see any spurs on her. So then her head does look female for the time being?

 

[reptastic]

Yep those are spurs, if the 2 males get along then they can be housed together, or you can just let them be as is since they arent sexually mature yet

 

[Rhetoric]

I never see the smaller male huffing around the female or mounting, they're always together. They sleep cuddled up and bask side by side (they don't stack up when they bask).
My little male is so tiny, I think hes like 31-32ish inches. Our bath mat is 34 inches and hes almost as long as it lol. I guess hes not TOO tiny, maybe I'm crazy. The female is a couple inches smaller than the small male so shes probably 29-30.

I've read that the males are sexually mature between 2-3 years and the females closer to 3 years. Does that change if they're smaller than usual?


Since there aren't any issues right now I probably will leave them together for the time being. Maybe I'll get lucky and the female will be a 3rd male lol.

 

[reptastic]

Good luck with that 3rd male lol, yeah Thats about when they mature, not sure if size has any bearing on it though but i think 3 years is more like the golden age

 

[Rhetoric]

Ok. Now I'm getting excited, does this one look male too? This one is the other "female". I was checking for spurs but I didn't really feel much. I tried to get a picture but it was burrowed into a sweatshirt and the flash kept going off... I might have to try again tomorrow. But I also got these other pics when I put it back into the enclosure. It's on one of the basking rocks and it looks like it could be jowl-y.. Maybe I'm hoping for too much :angel:
The links aren't showing so heres the link to the album
http://s1109.photobucket.com/albums/h436/rhetoricx/female%20tegu/
same one as earlier

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Oh and is there something wrong with the vent? It only looks like that when the tails pulled up but it doesn't look like that with the other two.. It doesn't have issues walking or going to the bathroom or anything.