General Care Discussion :: Mating/Egg Laying Question

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Post Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 8:49 am   Re: Mating/Egg Laying Question

Long claws with a big old tail. Thats a male
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Post Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 11:26 am   Re: Mating/Egg Laying Question

Looks like a big daddy and not a big mama ;) lol
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Post Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:35 pm   Re: Mating/Egg Laying Question

why would they try and mate? I mean the have had their tales wrapped around each other.
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Post Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 10:18 pm   Re: Mating/Egg Laying Question

Sometimes males will try to mount each other to show dominance, like other animals. My female dogs sometimes mount one another to try to show dominance, my cats have done it - it's fairly common. :)
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Post Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 3:27 pm   Re: Mating/Egg Laying Question

tecngame wrote:why would they try and mate? I mean the have had their tales wrapped around each other.

Even female turtles will mount to show dominace. Its exacly like adbritta said.
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Post Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 2:21 am   Re: Mating/Egg Laying Question

steve wrote:Long front claws = male



Yeah, Def a Male, lol
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Post Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 2:04 am   Re: Mating/Egg Laying Question

wow!!!!! that explains my 2 females doing the mounting thing....!
and the one tha'ts usually on top is sniffing the other one near her face a lot recently, does it mean anything?
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Post Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 1:31 pm   Re: Mating/Egg Laying Question

waterloo wrote:wow!!!!! that explains my 2 females doing the mounting thing....!
and the one tha'ts usually on top is sniffing the other one near her face a lot recently, does it mean anything?


I always thought they were just acting curious.
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Post Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 2:02 pm   Re: Mating/Egg Laying Question

Yea, those claws are WAY longer than my female's claws.

How big were they when you got them from Petco?
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