I placed a new breeder pair of cresties together today - 1 year old virgin male and an at least 3 year old proven female. The male happily bred her immediately while I watched, and afterwards his hemipene did not retract. I gave him 30 minutes, got uncomfortable with the situation, and assisted with a sugar water soak. This had no effect, so I got some lube and gently placed it back inside myself. I've had this happen to leopards geckos, and several of my males have had to have amputations over the years, and I wanted to avoid that with this crestie. Well, the little guy just bred her again, and once again, 20 minutes later, hemipene is still out. So do crested hemipenes just normally remain out a long time (never noticed this problem on any of my other males), or is this guy just not going to be a breeder? I'm going to give him a few more minutes, then assist again, because there's no reptile vet open tomorrow to do an amputation. Anyone (Anthony???) run into this issue before? Thanks!
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Inhabitants of the reptile room:
Leopard geckos, pictus geckos, crested geckos, african fat-tails, Paroedura bastardi bastardi, a velvet gecko, Henkel's Leaf Tails, Bibron's geckos, Corn snakes, Ball Pythons, Honduran milks, a single Taiwan Beauty, Leucistic Texas Rats, Solomon Island Tree Boas, a pair of Mali Uromastyx, an Amazon tree boa, baby Hatian tree boas, a single female circleback Colombian red-tail...

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• Retraction of CG Hemipenes - lovelyleopards, Fri Dec 24 22:50:03 2004
• RE: Retraction of CG Hemipenes - AnthonyCaponetto, Sat Dec 25 02:12:25 2004
• RE: Retraction of CG Hemipenes - lzrdldy530, Sun Dec 26 10:28:53 2004