Need an answer fast please!!

[ZEKESMOM]

I just went and took Zeke out of his/her tank to clean it. I was looking him over real good like I always do to make sure he has no free loading critters and I noticed something that has not been there before...In the pic where my finger is holding the tail on both sides of the tail there are 2 small pointy things just a little out of the skin! What the heck are they? Is it something to worry about or what. Please someone answer! The other pic is just for fun

[SatanicIntention]

They are spurs, remnants of what were legs in the past and they are used by the male to stimulate the female during mating.

[joepythons]

They are spurs, remnants of what were legs in the past and they are used by the male to stimulate the female during mating.

Oh yea thems spurs .I think you have you a boy their .I know females have them just never seen them stick them out before ,so thats why i say its a boy.

[ZEKESMOM]

LMAO Ok I will calm down now The last time I had posted pics everyone was saying they thought he was a she because of being so chunky and no tail! Learn something new concerning Zeke everyday! Thank you for your answers

[Nate]

what are you talking about joe? all ball pythons have the spurs...spurs aren't a way to tell male from female...at least, that's what everyone here has always said as well as my vet today.

[wildlifewarrior]

They are vestigial legs, they are used by males to stimulate the female during courtship. In some snakes in exrays you can make out what looks to be acctual leg bones looking like they are attaching to a place where there should be a pelvis but there isn't.


~mike

[joepythons]

what are you talking about joe? all ball pythons have the spurs...spurs aren't a way to tell male from female...at least, that's what everyone here has always said as well as my vet today.

Nate,calm down ok? What i was saying i have never seen a female stick hers out like the males do.

[joepythons]

Oh yea thems spurs .I think you have you a boy their .I know females have them just never seen them stick them out before ,so thats why i say its a boy.

See Nate what i said

[wildlifewarrior]

Nate,calm down ok? What i was saying i have never seen a female stick hers out like the males do.

The way you wrote it kinda made it sound like they were retactable or something, as well as that snake is probably too small to be tickleing any females.

~mike

[ZEKESMOM]

okay so now I dont know what I have. I do not have anyone that can pop or probe and really do not want to probe. It just gives me the willies. I know that Ken lives here in Tucson and I have been invited to see his snakes. Maybe I could convince him to come here and sex Zeke for me