Green Tree Python Sperm Plugs - High Quality Image

A lot of people out there have asked historically about sperm plugs. My male Green Tree Python (Mostly Sorong influence) gave me a clean one piece shed last night with a perfect example of sperm plugs. So I busted out my professional macro setup for frog work in the tropics, and got everyone a clean shot to compare with. Enjoy!

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8393/8...b7835694_b.jpg

And the boy

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8135/8...2eb383f8_b.jpg

Morelia Viridis

Cheers

Awesome pictures!! Will have to use this thread to refer back to when the opportunity presents itself........... ;)

Thanks Kali! I have this shed saved for future reference sake as well should I ever need to scan it or submit it to someone.

Those are amazing pictures and a great looking boy! :gj::gj:

Great pictures! I'd only expect a green trees sperm plugs to be just as photogenic as the actual snake!

I wish all snakes shed sperm plugs as easily as our chondros, would make sexing A LOT easier! Our males shed them regularly and it makes it very easy to sex them at 1-2 years without the hassle of probing. Def no question there, you've got a male!

Yep, with Boas we can rely on spurs pretty commonly. Hognose we rely on tail length and once you've seen the difference there is NO question at all. Other colubrids can be slightly different visually, but most still need to be popped for high confidence. But with Green Trees, it is really nice to have such a clear cut method to confirm your sex without harassing your snake.

My Dumeril's usually sheds sperm plugs too.

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But with Green Trees, it is really nice to have such a clear cut method to confirm your sex without harassing your snake.

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We can usually tell visually by a year regardless, how they feed, how they perch, personality, etc :) By 2 years there is usually no question. However for people who aren't experienced, the presence of sperm plugs are a nice way of telling. We just purchased an unsexed 4 year old that we were not sure if he was female or not. It was either a very overweight male or very small female. But personality and feeding response said male. Perching said female...although part of that was the extra "fluff" :rolleyes: So we simply waited for the shed...and there were the plugs. :gj: Some breeders can tell by tail length, shape, etc but that involves a bit of "harassing the snake" haha and I personally have not checked out enough tails to be able to verify that way.

As my finace told me when we first met.....it's easy to sex baby chondros....just hold a credit card above their head...whichever one strikes at the card is a female..... :rofl:

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Some breeders can tell by tail length, shape, etc but that involves a bit of "harassing the snake" haha and I personally have not checked out enough tails to be able to verify that way.

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I know you already said you don't really handle your collection but calling it harassing is a bit much. I could not imagine having a collection that I didn't handle. I think if the only stress or "harassing" a snake gets is being held for a brief time is a pretty easy life. They get a nice penthouse apartment with perfect weather and a steady diet of gourmet rodents brought to them. I think this is far less than one would encounter in the wild.

While I will agree that our snakes may have specific needs that makes them some what high maintenance to keep. I have said before that I think they are far more resilient than they are given credit. I never do any more than hold my snakes and let them crawl on and around me, and I really don't do it often, but I think they put up with me rather well. I don't think it has any ill effect on them.

I like the credit card idea. I will have to try it. :gj:

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I know you already said you don't really handle your collection but calling it harassing is a bit much. I could not imagine having a collection that I didn't handle.

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Whoa there I was simply quoting reptile experts lol..... "But with Green Trees, it is really nice to have such a clear cut method to confirm your sex without harassing your snake."

Relax, I put it in quotes because I was quoting what someone else said. I never said we never handle them I just said we don't handle them often. Some of them do not like being handled as it stresses them out. And a few of them CANNOT be handled...without the use of gloves and its not a happy event. ;)

I don't care if a owner handles their collection or not. I just don't think I would call it harassing. Even probing does not seem to have a felt effect on them. The ones I have probed really don't seem like they even know it is going on. I would be cautious about a EXPERT that refers to this as harassing.

I was just stating my opinion, I'm not upset with anybody.

Some green trees do absolutely fine with handling, they do not all deserve the rep as being for looking only. As long as the keeper fully understands how delicate they can be, and not to force the snake to interact it can be good. Mine will come onto my hand and allow me to take him out from time to time, and I'll interact with it on a weekly basis to try and keep it calmer. But its completely different than just grabbing a giant retic, or picking up a ball. That is the point many people do not understand which can result in tail damage . . .

http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...5/img_3537.jpg

Another look at the boy from today, shots fairly compressed here so the qualtiy is not that great, will have a better quality on the flickr site.

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Another look at the boy from today, shots fairly compressed here so the qualtiy is not that great, will have a better quality on the flickr site.

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Beautiful Photo!!

Andy-:snake:

Thanks!


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im guessing my chondro is a boy?

Yep! It's a boy


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awesome thanks! guess i gotta change his name from Lucy haha. ive had him about a year and a half and prob wouldnt have known his sex as soon if it werent for this thread. ive been too lazy to get him probed or somethjng

So I didn't think to check until a couple days after he shed. But then I remembered this thread, and went looking for sperm plugs. The shed was already dried out, so these were the best pics I could get. They are also only phone shots. But I believe we have confirmation Epic is male!

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What do ya think? :D:p

Hard to tell from those photos, as females can produce plugs as well. But appears to be male (as females typically have very small plugs that are shaped differently). Can you PM me a pic of your boy? I'd love to see him.

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Hard to tell from those photos, as females can produce plugs as well. But appears to be male (as females typically have very small plugs that are shaped differently). Can you PM me a pic of your boy? I'd love to see him.

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Thanks. I'm afraid I can't figure out how to get pics in a pm on my phone. But here is his thread. Start to finish pics here, lol.

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showthread.php?t=194980

Looks like a boy doo!

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