General Care Discussion :: Can a female do this?

[marisa]

Looks like a female to me.

[novroz]

How big is Kroten again? It looks like she is bigger than my Pickle, and her tail looks smaller than Pickles. Her nails definitely are shorter than Pickle's. I'm not an expert on sexing turtles, since I still can't decide if Pickle is actually a boy or girl (I'm leaning toward boy again) but comparing her to Pickle I would have to guess Kroten is a female. (plus the position of her cloaca on her tail looks JUST like the female pic http://redearslider.com/determining_sex.html )

kroten is about 5inches. looking at the link you've gave me...I think kroten is a female

Are they the same age?

My understanding is that females grow larger than males.

But turtles also like to climb on each other for the heck of it.

My female, Typhoon, hides under the male, Hurricane, all the time. It's like, "OMG so scary, Hurricane lemme get under your belly!" And then Hurricane is like, "Hey, check it out I got taller!"

Humor me.

But anyways, Hurricane also has larger nails. They also have typically behavior that you would see among males and females.

I;m not sure how old kroten is...I had her less than 1 year but I didn't got her from hatcling, I don't know how old she is in captive

[theartbook35]

Their sizes are so different dramatically that they can't possibly be the same age.

Kroten's shell is so light colored and it has that sort of roundness hatchling shells have.

You can't really determine definitely if turtles are male and female until they are full grown, unless you are a turtle expert. (I'm not, but I have done research! They have subtle differences between genders even as hatchlings).