My male chondros sometimes have hemipenal sheds attached to a full shed, but not always. I have a 60gm neo that had what looked like hemipenal sheds just recently. My big male from Mike has had several sheds with hemipenal sheds attached. He's just recently gone off of food and the shed included much more substantial hemipenal sheds than his shed from a few months back. I wouldn't say its a reliable way to sex a chondro since there are certainly many sheds that dont have the hemipenal sheds, but if they're there, they're pretty obvious. I have not noticed obvious hemipenal sheds on BRB sheds, but then again I've not really taken the time to look. I've got two adult males deep in blue right now, I'll make a note of their sheds and report back if I find them to be similar to chondros.

I'm pretty good with palpating BRBs, the "BBs" are quite obvious to me. I've found them on a few other snake species here, but have not been able to find them on my chondros, including those who are known to be male.

The spur shed pix are really neat.
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Julie
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