Sperm Plugs?

what dose it mean when male ball pythons start leaving sperm plugs?

Trojan time!

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Originally Posted by jim020cricket

Trojan time!

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That is just wrong lol.When a male starts leaving sperm plugs it means he wants to breed:P .

ha ha ha I take it he wants to breed... He has been doing nothing but pase back and forth for 3 days now and this morning I found what looked to me, 2 little whiteish yellow worm things but I sent them to the vet and found them to be sperm plugs.

EDIT: LOL you people are just wrong LMAO,

Congrats! Got any females ready?

I wish!!

So is there anything I can do for him (mind out of the gutter people) I dont have a female of breeding weight, (1200 gr is around breeding weight for females right?)

Should I stop holding him for a while? cool him down? what? :P LOL

Any one near Atlanta or Agusta with a female want babies ? ;) LOL j/k

He is also getting kinda lovey with me... wanting me to pick him up if I put him down. He will just lift the whole frount(sp) of his bady and look up at me, then try to go up my leg if I dont pick him up.

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Originally Posted by joepythons

When a male starts leaving sperm plugs it means he wants to breed.

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Actually, many sexually mature male ball pythons will produce sperm plugs all year long whether they want to breed or not ... the drive/desire to breed is related to many factors, most of which are trigger by outside stimuli ... while the production of sperm plugs is more of a function of the snakes own pyhsiology.

Just because sperm plugs are present in a male does not mean that we will necessarily breed, and conversly, a male may breed prior to being physically able to produce sperm plugs ... it takes the combination of wanting to breed, producing sperm plugs, and a willing/ready/able female to make little baby ball pythons. ;)

-adam

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Originally Posted by jessie_k_pythons

So is there anything I can do for him

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Just keep doing what you've been doing ... it's a non event.

-adam

how can you tell they are leaving sperm plugs?

He has been acting odd ... really odd, spending alot of time on the side of the cage next to my females cage. trying to get out, and wanting to be held alot more. He is tearing apart his cage as we speak, he never did this befor 3 days ago. The vet said he was just fine.

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Originally Posted by jessie_k_pythons

The vet said he was just fine.

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That's because he is ... like I said ... it's a non-event ... if there is something "odd" about him, the presence of sperm plugs has nothing to do with it.

I've got at least 30 males that I could pop sperm plugs out of right now ... they're all fine ... just like your male. ;)

-adam

ok thanks. I wasnt worried really, I took him to the vet thinking there was something wrong with him and the vet told me he was looking outstanding, and all that could be going on is the fact that he just might want to breed to my female, or he just might feel really good for some odd reason.

she isn't a very good herp vet, had to ask me what kind of snake he was 2 times. So I figured i would as you all what might be going on with him.
:D

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Originally Posted by jessie_k_pythons

ok thanks. I wasnt worried really, I took him to the vet thinking there was something wrong with him and the vet told me he was looking outstanding, and all that could be going on is the fact that he just might want to breed to my female, or he just might feel really good for some odd reason.

she isn't a very good herp vet, had to ask me what kind of snake he was 2 times. So I figured i would as you all what might be going on with him.
:D

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I bet she still charged you the real herp vet office visit charge :giggle: .Gotta love those wannabe reptile vets lol.

I dont know what she charged, my husband covered it and I wasent there ... I was on the phone with Ben Siegel finding out my little girl is getting here at 10 am tomorrow morning :D:D:D , and my husband wont tell me what the charge was, "dont worry about the price".BTW I have some pics of Baby Tearing up is tempary cage ( I got racks today Yay for me !) It looked much better before he started tearing it apart and befor I took off the heat controls.

http://www.hexibase.com/~jessica/08.JPG
http://www.hexibase.com/~jessica/09.JPG
http://www.hexibase.com/~jessica/010.JPG

wow!!! He looks great. Look at his sides!

I was looking at him today and was in aw of how good he looks. I got really lucky with him. He was a trade. Got hoim for a nasy 9 foot Retic.

His sides turn speckeled gold right befor it goes to the tipical brown.

he just fliped over his water bowl and gave me a look that almost said " Yeah I did this, yeah I made a mess. So what you goanna do about it?!"
I wish i could have gotten that look on cam. :D