Dave,
...I have not seen hemipenal sheds attached the the full shed in Rainbow Boas. I do see the sheds from the spurs. Your PIC really shows them well.
Jeff

>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>This is a single male spur, right side out, shed folded si it protrudes...
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>>And another pic showing the male spur on the left and a female spur on the right...
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>>Clearly not different enough IMO to be used for sexing an individual, but still cool.
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>>Thanks,
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>>Dave Colling
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>>www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com
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>>0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
>>0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)
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>>LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
>>26.49 BRB
>>20.21 BCI
>>And those are only the breeders
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>>lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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