i picked up a new yearling ball yesterday. upon inspection at the reptile store he was fine. lots of tong flicking and strong well fed (got the chart) nice clean ventall the sings of a healthy snake. but this morning when i took him out cause he took a poo i looked at his vent there was a red gooy substance that came out of his vent then when i looked it went back in??? it looked like really thick blood?? is this something i should worry about or is it is snakey wang??? i wouldn't know because i only have females up until this point??
heeeeeeeelp me please
thanks
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what the heck is that!!!!
pimp_n_python
Nov 16, 2003 01:21 PM
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gmherps
Nov 16, 2003 01:33 PM
Greg
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MarkS
Nov 16, 2003 01:39 PM
Sometimes snakes will evert their hemipenes when they take a dump. Maybe thats what you saw???
Mark
>>i picked up a new yearling ball yesterday. upon inspection at the reptile store he was fine. lots of tong flicking and strong well fed (got the chart) nice clean ventall the sings of a healthy snake. but this morning when i took him out cause he took a poo i looked at his vent there was a red gooy substance that came out of his vent then when i looked it went back in??? it looked like really thick blood?? is this something i should worry about or is it is snakey wang??? i wouldn't know because i only have females up until this point??
>>heeeeeeeelp me please
>>thanks
Ball-Pythons.Net
Nov 16, 2003 03:49 PM
A penis! They have two, I've seen pics of them popped out, they look like bloody stubs. No worries.
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pimp_n_python
Nov 16, 2003 06:13 PM
n/p
