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rainbowsrus
at Sat May 2 16:34:42 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by rainbowsrus ]
A guy I've been chatting with for a while has a Peruvian. Not sure is it's a male or female. Probed as a female but still not sure.
Any ways, the question is do BRB's have a hemipenal component to the shed like GTP's do? First off I have no idea if GTP's have a hemipenal component to the regular shed. We (I) got side tracked into what we're calling hemipenal sheds during mating before I realized he was talking about normal sheds.
So, I didn;t know the answer and did not have a male shed to check. Later that evening one of my breeder males shed and I also have a females shed. No hemipenal component to the shed. However, I did find that the vestigal spur IS there and is covered by a scale. And, the male spur is longer/larger than the female.
This is a single male spur, right side out, shed folded si it protrudes...
And another pic showing the male spur on the left and a female spur on the right...
Clearly not different enough IMO to be used for sexing an individual, but still cool.
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Thanks,
Dave Colling
www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com
0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)
LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders 
lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats  
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 Hmmm, was asked an interesting question. - rainbowsrus, Sat May 2 16:34:42 2009
- And a little snake porn from yesterday.. - rainbowsrus, Sat May 2 16:40:28 2009
- RE: Hmmm, was asked an interesting quest - brick1, Sun May 3 11:36:52 2009
- RE: Hmmm, was asked an interesting question. - gfx, Sun May 3 20:20:02 2009
- RE: Hmmm, was asked an interesting question. - run26neys, Mon May 4 21:22:38 2009
- RE: Hmmm, was asked an interesting question. - waspinator421, Mon May 4 23:56:09 2009
- RE: Hmmm, was asked an interesting question. - Jeff Clark, Tue May 5 00:01:48 2009
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