Quote Originally Posted by HazAnga View Post
And the solid one looks as if it's still a baby, it's pretty small, the picture is a closeup lol, but how can you tell it's a female?
Lots of experience. It just seems awfully thick in all the right places to not be gravid in spite of it's small size but I could be wrong about her being gravid. Definitely female though.

To be more specific about what tells me it's female, that is a heavy bodied snake. If you'll notice how easy it is to tell, even by looking from above, where the tail starts. The tail is short and tapers abruptly. Starting right at the cloaca, going upward toward the head, the body suddenly gets thick. In other words, the body is thick all the way to the cloaca, then all the sudden, it gets thinner really quick.

If I were looking at a male, the body would be thinner and gradually get thinner all the way to the tail tip and I wouldn't be able to tell where the tail begins by looking at it from above. If that were simply a heavy bodied male, the tail would taper (get thinner) gradually, and it would be longer and not so offset from the body.