Belly Burns... (Rescue)

[ratchet]

Small update!
Charlie still hasn't passed anything, no pee or urates or poop. So I took him out to really inspect his vent after looking on YouTube on how people pop the snakes to sex them (just trying to learn how to open them up and see what it's all supposed to look like, have never done it before!). Well, he's a boy! But I pulled this out of his vent... Looks like old shed that got stuck and then the edges were burnt. Everything looks okay on the inside, I don't know if the skin can cause an infection if it was in there too long but like I said, it all looked okay.



He peed a little when I was putting pressure around his vent, wasn't even upset about being peed on, haha.. He is starting to finally shed, so I'm hoping his belly will look a lot better afterwards!!


Edit: after looking closer at what I pulled out, it sort of looks like it might be a bit :cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r: at the ends of the two tails... I don't know how I could tell if it's infected in there? Any thoughts?

[the_rotten1]

Looks like a sperm plug to me. Two tails? Do you mean his hemipenes or his spurs?

[ratchet]

Looks like a sperm plug to me. Two tails? Do you mean his hemipenes or his spurs?

Sperm plug? I've never heard of that happening! I was talking about the tails on what I pulled out of his vent, not on the snake.


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[ratchet]

Okay, I read it up on it and I think you're right. Not really sperm plugs, but the hemipenial shed. Usually they come out when the snake sheds, but sometimes they don't? Does that sound right? It's the first time I've ever dealt with it, learning new stuff!


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