Hi, and welcome to the community. Your budgies are so beautiful. Budgies have to be at least a year old before their bodies are mature and ready for breeding. To me, both look very young, but older than 1.5 months old, now 2.5 months old. Is there a chance you meant they were 1.5 years old? That, of course does make them old enough to breed. Looking at the green one, I do think that one is definitely a boy. He still has some black bars on the top of his head, and those bars will all disappear at about a year old. The blue budgie has no bars, which makes me think it could be older, and with that light color mutation, sometimes it is hard to tell the eex, because the ceres never turn dark blue in a male, and your budgie does have a lighter color cere. A hen budgie has a light ivory or tan colored cere. When a hen is in breeding condition, the cere turns brown or crusty brown color. I have bred budgies before, and if the hen does begin laying eggs in the box, she will not let the male into the box until the eggs hatch. Further, do not use any nesting material in the box at all. The hen with her beak shaves off tiny pieces of the bottom of the box, and uses them for nesting material. The male will imediately go into the box when first egg hatches. He will then regurgitate seed from his mouth into the hens mouth, and she will feed the babies. He will perch out of the box at night as well.
If you have avian vets in your area, they could do a DNA test for you, but often times the cost is quite high.
If it were me, I would remove the nest box for now, and give them a few more months to mature. If, you do see them mating, and the hen, if you have one, lays an egg, then put the nest box back in the cage.
Also, do a Google search for...breeding budgies and budgie hens laying eggs. There is great into on the web.
Your budgies need to have access to cuttlebone at all times, and also, fresh leaf lettuce and other fresh fruits and veggies except for any cabbage family veggies like kale, parsley, cabbage, bok choy, and broccoli. They have a phyto chemical in them that can cause esophageal tumors in budgies. If you feed seed, and no pellets, ( which, in my view, is the better choice anyway), then get a bottle of bird vitamins at the pet shop, and put a few drops in the seed cup, mixed with the seed, about once every ten days. They need to be in great health and also mature, to breed, and the hen, needs the cuttlebone, so she will lay eggs with a hard shell. Otherwise, if she cannot push out the egg, she could get egg bound, and that could result in her dying.
Breeding is no easy feat. You have a better chance for success if you read all about breeding, and are prepared for the experience. Good luck! We welcome your updates and questions anytime.
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