Guess she likes it rough... broken spur?

I've been pairing my mojave ghost to my big het ghost girl. He's around 850 grams, she's 2400 grams. Today I checked on them after reintroducing him last night and I noticed some blood streaks. After inspecting their vents I discovered his right spur had been snapped off, he's got a little hole there and I found the spur in the tub. He doesn't seem to be bleeding.

I know missing a spur shouldn't effect his breeding but as of right now should I keep him in his own tub for a couple days to make sure it heals and there's no chance of infection? I dabbed it with a diluted betadine soaked q-tip. He appeared to be avoiding her when I checked on them and discovered it so maybe it's sore? He'd normally be all over her.

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My poor injured Houdini:
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His overzealous lover, Penny:
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Hi,

The blood trails are likely to have come from his junk when he was waving it all over the place. :P

If you look you should be able to see a tiny white spur. The darker part is stuck shed which builds up on it I think.


dr del

It's multiple sheds that haven't come off the spur that have finally come off. The very small spur that's left that you can see in the pic is the normal spur. You can grab an older animal and actually pull them off with no issue. I bet if you lightly pulled on the other one it'd come off just the same. I'd say the blood smears are breeding behavior, not concerning the spur.

Oh cool, I actually learned today! Yea, I honestly didn't know that, always assumed those *were* the spurs.
I normally see a bit of blood during pairings but there was definitely more of it this time, I'm guessing just coincidence to freak me out lol.

Cool, I'll put them back together in the morning then I guess :)

Thanks, guys! Glad my snake junk is in fact uninjured.

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