Need help with morphs/sexing my babies...

Hi All,

My first batch of babies are a little over 4 weeks now and I am trying to figure out their morphs and what sex they are.

The parents are:
Father: red trans het hypo X beasley red leatherback double het
Mother: blood trans het hypo

I know breeding trans x trans has major drawbacks, this was a "oops" that happened when I had them out of their cages for playtime.

Based on the parents the babies should all be trans and some hypo while the others will be het hypo.

Having a hard time telling which are leatherback and which aren't.
Also not sure if I'm sexing correctly

What are your thoughts on the following five? Did I get it right?

Nice looking little buggers. The flashlight method sometimes doesn't work well with babies, I can't tell from those pics but I may very well be able to tell if you don't use the flashlight, just arch the tail + take a pic from behind with good lighting coming from behind you. And it's hard to see if any are leathers....can you take pics from the top, looking down at their back ? I raised leathers for years, so far none of those look like they are but a different angle + better pic might show their scalation better. Here's one of mine....take a pic like this, close up and I can tell you if yours are leathers.
https://www.beardeddragon.org/media/29923/full

Thank you so much for the reply. After looking at your pic and showing my wife I don't think the 5 I picked out tonight were leathers but my wife was able to spot a few in the bunch.

When I get a chance later this week I'll take more photos to share.

Here is a pic of the dad who is a leatherback and I'll admit he doesn't have the smoothest back as I've seen in other leatherbacks but the breeder I bought him from said he was a leatherback, would you agree?



I might be letting him go to get a non-trans or a het trans leatherback male

AHBD":3auu5ut4 said:

Nice looking little buggers. The flashlight method sometimes doesn't work well with babies, I can't tell from those pics but I may very well be able to tell if you don't use the flashlight, just arch the tail + take a pic from behind with good lighting coming from behind you. And it's hard to see if any are leathers....can you take pics from the top, looking down at their back ? I raised leathers for years, so far none of those look like they are but a different angle + better pic might show their scalation better. Here's one of mine....take a pic like this, close up and I can tell you if yours are leathers.
https://www.beardeddragon.org/media/29923/full

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You're welcome. And yes, their dad is beautiful but it's a close call to say he's a leatherback. Some do have rougher scales.... it looks like he has smoother ones in the middle of his back and rough ones along his sides.

Hi Again,

I took some more photos and hoping you can help sex them and let me know if any of these are leatherbacks:
(Really need help to tell if any are leatherbacks)

#1 - Female Trans Het Hypo


#2 - Male Trans Hypo


#3 - Male Trans Het Hypo


#4 - Male Trans Het Hypo


#5 - Male Trans Het Hypo


#6 - Male Trans Hypo


#7 - Female Trans Hypo

AHBD":3rbstu61 said:

You're welcome. And yes, their dad is beautiful but it's a close call to say he's a leatherback. Some do have rougher scales.... it looks like he has smoother ones in the middle of his back and rough ones along his sides.

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Well you're doing a good job sexing them. I think you have them right, sometimes you can label them as " probable " if it looks like one gender but you're not sure.

As for leathers, there are none in that group.