Sexing newts

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If possible could you give me and ID on the sex of my newts please; I thought I was sure; but some recent egg laying has now got me confused....the photo of Isaac is terrible so I don't expect anyone to be able to tell me.

EDIT: For some reason my links aren't working....bare with me.

Hopefully these links should work...

Isaac
http://www.caudata.org/forum/members/dipsydoodle-albums-isaac.html

Flame
http://www.caudata.org/forum/members/dipsydoodle-albums-flame.html

Tiny
http://www.caudata.org/forum/members/dipsydoodle-albums-tiny.html
 
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i can't tell with Isaac because the image is too small for me to make out any definable features of his/her cloaca.

Flame is a definite male as you can clearly see his swollen testes.

im not too sure with Tiny but im fairly certain that Tiny is a male as well.

here is a helpful link so that you can see the differences between a male and a female cloaca.

Caudata Culture Articles - Sexing
 
shmifty5 said:
Flame is a definite male as you can clearly see his swollen testes.
Caudata Culture Articles - Sexing
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Sorry, just wanted to point out that those are not the testes (which are internal) it´s cloacal tissue.

Isaac is impossible to tell, but the other two are females (although it´s possible that the skinny one could be a male that has it´s secondary sexual characteristics hidden because of it´s physical state - unlikely, though).
 
Isaacs bits look identical to Flames.

I thought that Isaac and Flame were females and that Tiny (skinny one) was a male (his bits are different looking, and he has a different shape even now he's fattened up). The photo was on the first day I got him and he was pretty skinny.

The "line" down the middle of Tiny's bits isn't like "a hole", it's more just an indent in his bits.
 
Azhael said:
Sorry, just wanted to point out that those are not the testes (which are internal) it´s cloacal tissue.
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oh wow, that means that my figgy was a girl instead of a male, thanks azhael.
 
Tiny´s cloaca is a bit dubious, but i would be inclined to thinking it is a female. If you have a more recent picture, we might be able to ascertain for sure.

shmifty5: I didn´t mean it couldn´t be a male. I was just trying to avoid confussion because the testes of a male newt are internal and are not situated in the cloaca, despite what might appear. If your animal has a broad enlarged cloaca then it is a male.
 
figgys cloaca was extremely similiar to Flames, if Flame is a female then figgy has got to have been a girl, it's good to know.
 
Azhael said:
Tiny´s cloaca is a bit dubious, but i would be inclined to thinking it is a female. If you have a more recent picture, we might be able to ascertain for sure.
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Tiny's bits look exactly the same. I'll try and get a better picture of them lol.
 
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