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I took my sunglow out from with my albino female tonight and noticed that behind his vent it looks swollen and is kinda hard. he's in shed at the moment. I haven't seen him courting or copulating with the female recently so I'm not sure what it is, do any of you have any ideas? Imma try to get a hold of my vet to get his opinion on it and take him in if he feels necessary which i probably will anyways.

Thanks
Zack
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Zack Greens Reptiles

I've noticed my mature males thickening up past the cloaca come breeding season, but never anything localized like that. Any chance the other cage has aspen or some similar substrate besides paper?

jb
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Jonathan Brady
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I use newspaper on all my boa substrates, only ones on aspen is the corn snake and the w. hogs, so nothing could of stuck to his hemipenes, any other thoughts?
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Zack Greens Reptiles

Hey Zack,
I had a male Hypo that ended up with an infected vent gland a couple of years ago. Two rounds of anibiotics along with manual expression of nasty puss and fluid didn't work. The vet did a surgery to manually clean out the gland, and I followed it up with more manual expression of puss and fluid, then filling the open incision with antibiotic ointment for 14 days. When the area seemed to be free of puss and swelling the vet sewed him back up. Sadly the infection returned. The vet explained to me that the vent gland has a honeycomb structure inside that is very hard to completely scour of any infection. Hind sight tells me that I should have opted for the removal of the gland during surgery instead of just a "cleaning."

I hope that is not the case for your male Sunglow. Good luck man.

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Jeff Carr
West Coast Constrictors
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do you use aspen or any substrate other than paper? I only ask because I had a similiar incident when I used Aspen. From his hemipenes my male pulled a bunch of it up into his vent and it became infected. If you do,take a good look down there see if any aspen is sticking out. Even with paper, they can pull up dried urates and cause an infection. Good luck. Mike Panichi
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Thanks everyone for your input, my reptile vet is off today so I have an apointment scheduled for tomarrow morning, wish me luck
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Zack Greens Reptiles