Probably, each person buying a pet inevitably wants to learn, "boy" or "girl" will lodge at his place, and krasnoukhy turtles – not an exception. How to distinguish a male of a krasnoukhy turtle from a samochka? Take our advice.
Instruction
1. Before achievement by turtles of puberty which occurs at the age of 6-8 years, to the beginning naturalist to understand who is who, quite difficult. It and is clear: it is necessary to define a sex of "krasnoushka" on very indistinct signs which can vary both between floors, and from an individual to an individual.
2. Be guided on a hvostua of males a tail quite long, reinforced at the basis. At the self-check the tail is shorter because in it it is located yaytsevod. The foul place the self-check is on a tail at the edge of a carapace (top side of an armor). The foul place of males is located much further on a tail.
3. Estimate plastronplastron - it is the belly party of a tortoise shell. At males it concave, it is explained by need to a male to keep on an armor of a female during pairing. Samochki have more flat plastron.
4. Observe for povedeniyemsamets behave more actively, than samochka. Sometimes in behavior of males it is possible to notice also signs of aggression that practically is never afforded by women.
5. Compare distance between the top and lower surface of an armor at different to an osobeyposkolk of a samochka are adapted by the nature for postponement of eggs, the rear edge of a plastron and corners of a carapace at them form an opening which diameter is more, than at males.
6. Look narrowly to mordochkeznatok assure that the muzzles of males which were more pointed, than at females.
7. As for sex determination of mature turtles, it is quite easy to identify it on length of claws and the sizes of a body. Samochki are much larger than males. At the same time males on forepaws "let grow" long claws what at "great ladies" never happens. However be attentive: this secondary sexual character can be nullified by continuous grinding about the surface of "land" in a terrarium, especially if "land" has the scratching surface.