Yeah I'm thinking of contacting and taking him to the vet or reptile keeping places to see if they could help...It is very hard to tell Princess. With Water Dragons the females can definitely show colour on their breast so this is a very unreliable method. Males heads are usually a little bulkier in the side of the jaw but without seeing your dragon in person a definite sex will be very hard to determine.
Your best bet would be an X-Ray for positive confirmation.
Yeah, ever since my other one started getting his colours I've been getting more and more convinced that this one is actually a girl as along with the above colours being more obvious and vibrant his chest/belly/underside is almost a more dark scarlet red rather then the kind of slight pink that this one has. Really the only main thing that's been making me still think it might be a boy is that it's a slightly different shape than the girl. Each to their own I guess.It certainly looks like a female to me. The males have more intense colour, wider head at back, bulkier bottom jaw, larger crests on the head and neck, wider base of the tail and femoral pores are a lot more visible. So try comparing those features with the boy in the towel and I think you will see the differences.
If it gets a pink blush on the ventral surface but does not develop scarlet colour on the chest than it is definitely not a male....is there anyway I can tell for sure?
In general the existence of hemipenal bulges is the case for most adult male dragons. However, in a few species it is far less obvious and water dragons are one of those. The base of the tail (I,e, adjacent to the vent) is thicker in males because of the presence of the hemipenes. Unfortunately there is a finger across that area in the photo of the ventral surface provided.I was under the impression ALL dragons can be sexed by the hemipenal bulges in the tail . Although I know male eastern water dragons have a red throat.
I do have a query about the origin of these two individuals. In both females it is difficult to clearly see/confirm the eye to ear dark stripe, which should be clearly visible in sub-adults attaining breeding age. The other thing is the colour and pattern on the throat. You get this in many northern NSW/Qld specimens but it is also present in Gippsland female..
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