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kinyonga · Contributing Member Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 126

I have kept these lizards for years. One female has produced babies about this time of year for the last four or five years. The temperatures in their cages are cooler in the winter, but not cold by any means.

The easiest way I have found to sex them is to look down on them from above and look at the shape of the head. Females have narrower triangle shape to the head than the males do.

I keep C. mossambicus...but have not had them reproduce for me yet.
I have had two C. jonesii males for over 14 years now too.
They are an interesting family of lizards!

adriankidd · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 1:15 pm Post subject:

ok,, best pics i could get with my camera, hope they help

adriankidd · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 1:16 pm Post subject:

some more

Ailurus · Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:29 pm Post subject:

good rescue mission mate, you should have got them for free, the fiend! They look much better in those pictures.

Putting matches against geckos what a complete w*nk*r i hope he gets what he deserves. well done adrian!!

you should go and take his others, at night, by the cover of darkness lol
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adriankidd · Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:55 pm Post subject:

thanks,I'm hoping after a good shed they will be looking alot better, id love to swipe the rest, he still has 2 leos in a glass tank similar to the sun gazers, a blue tongue skink in a 2' pennine and a pair of corn snakes in a fusty looking glass tank. i also got a Tokay the day after, i another guy just outside a pet shop, he was trying to sell it to them but they had no room, told me he was tempted to kill it because it was so nasty and kept biting him, he must not have researched the Tokay before buying it, anyway, my house is beginning to look like doctor do-little lives here, I'm gonna have to try and restrain myself!, by the way,,, anyone any idea on the sex of these little guys from the extra pics i put up,, i am getting to know them a bit more now and would say their heads are defiantly a different shape, one has a shorter more triangular head that the other

kinyonga · Contributing Member Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 126

Some of your pictures have the head on a slight angle...but I think you might have females.

Here's a picture of a male and female where you can see the difference...
http://www.reptileforums.co.uk/reptile-classifieds-exotics-sale-wanted/27652-dwarf-sungazers.html

Here is the underside of the male and the female...
http://www.tallbo.com/andra_cordylus/subspecie.htm

Clear photo of the male's underside...
http://dragonsdasgard.actifforum.com/Les-especes-c6/Les-scincides-et-les-autres-c11/ScinquesTejusGerrhosaurines-AnguidesCordylides-et-divers-f48/Determination-du-sexe-chez-CORDYLUS-TROPIDOSTERNUM-en-photo-p68074.htm

adriankidd · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 6:51 pm Post subject:

have a little problem now, im thinkin i have a pair of males! one chases the other and bites at the body, tail, legs and face, i'll have to separate them and maybe try and trade one for a female somewhere, just my luck, gonna try and get some more pics of the underside to see if anyone can confirm a definite sex, thanks

Dragon lover · I'm new here... Joined: 10 Jul 2007 Posts: 1

Hi all, new to the site.. been reading a few of your posts...

cordylus sp,:
there are 28 Members of the Cordylidae family, these lizards are in the group of spiny-tailed or girdled-tailed lizards in the Scincomorpha infraorder.

Girdle-tailed Lizards, Sungazers and Armadillo Lizards are just some of the common names for members of this genus.

A useful site i found for pictures and names is http://cordyles.canalblog.com/

its in French but Google translate page works well.