Is there something wrong here?

I have a couple of visual pieds. The male is a very strong breeder. The kind that would lock with a stick if it looked good. Anyways, I gave him an entire week off to try to get him to eat, since he has been off food for 6 weeks. Of course, he was not interested in food. When I put him back in with this female. He has been definitely locked with her for over 2 days, even more if the current status counts. I just went to see if they were done and it appears he may still be locked up, but her tail end is extremely pink, and does not look good to me. I was afraid to inspect too much as if he is still copulating I do not want to hurt anyone, plus he did not really seem to want me messing around, although he is not aggressive.

Could someone please give me some feedback on what to do here?

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It doesn't look like they are locked to me. The vents are too far apart from the looks of it. Males will keep their tails near each other to try to block other males from breeding with the female. That maybe what is going on here.

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Originally Posted by Kinra

It doesn't look like they are locked to me. The vents are too far apart from the looks of it. Males will keep their tails near each other to try to block other males from breeding with the female. That maybe what is going on here.

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Yes, they were indeed done. After keeping the tub open a few minutes, it got him to move away from her. After inspecting them both, her entire belly is pink, so I believe she is going in shed. I think that is most of what is going on here, but they both have a bit of what looks like blood near their cloacas. Does this by chance happen at all?

A little blood can be normal. You willl sometimes see blood trails when the female is scenting the tub as well. As long as nothing is visually/noticably wrong I wouldnt worry too much about it.