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When I got my baby RES here in HK, I asked the pet shop owner for a male RES...and I asked her how she can tell between males & females, and she said males have more spots or markings on the belly area of the shell compared to the female ones....

I wonder.... could this be true?

As stated in previous posts, the pet shops in Hong Kong are not nice at all...so I don't really trust what the owner said...

any ideas?

My male and female both have spots on their bellies...although the female has more. I don't see this to be a sexual characteristic. Not one that I have heard of anyway.

Here is a picture of my male


Here's my female


The pictures of the female were taken when she was a hatchling, those spots have continued to expand.

There is no relationship between the pattern on the plastron and the sex of the turtle.

thanks guys!

yet another reason for me to not trust pet shop owners in Hong Kong!