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I know you folks aren't vets or anything, but it's sunday night and no clinic will answer the phone. Even the emergency vet hospital. I'm cleaning my crested cage, i have 2 females in it, and one male, isn his own cage, seperated until the females are big enough to hold their own/be healthy even if they become gravid. I weighed them tonight, and they are nice and plump, about 30g. So i decided to put everyone together in the big cage, but in order to clean it, the females had to go in the males cage, for an hour or so, temporarily. I just checked up on them, and all three were haning out, the male was licking himself, i thought oh he just had a poop or whatever, and i pick him up cause i saw something red on his bum, and lo and behold he has this protrusion, from his right testis, that looks like it IS the testis. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO! the protrusion is pink, white, and red. it has a mesentary, holding the folds together, like the intestines, but obviously NOT the intestines. Did one of the females bite him off? PLEASE GIVE ME ADVICE!!! I'm so upset!

THANK YOU.

Without seeing pictures, I can't be sure, but it sounds like a hemipene (they're not testes) is still out. Just leave him alone and it should go back in. If you continue to handle him, he'll be stressed and may have further problems. If the hemipene doesn't go back in by itself, you may try soaking him in sugar water for a couple days.

If that doesn't work, take him to a qualified reptile vet.

-Anthony
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Anthony Caponetto
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This is one of our males; he was probably disturbed "in action". The hemipene was protruding out (more than this at first), and the whole thing looked a little ugly. we even saw what apeared to be a little blood on a couple eggcrates (His? Who knows?).

But he's fine, still producing babies...
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-Randy May
www.neoscales.com
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http://www.neoscales.com/Pics/HP.jpg

...sorry.
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-Randy May
www.neoscales.com
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well, i fianlly got him to the vet, my call had to be forwarded by some automated machine but i finally figured it out. It actually was neither of what the two of your said, obviously you couldn't have known, but the vet looked at him carefully, and determined that his cloaca (part of the large intestine) had essentially come out, through the abdominal wall, where the genital/anal opening is. Kind of like a hernia, she said, but with organs, not tissues or lypotes or whatever. She used a probe and lubricant to put it back into his body, obviously no anesthesia (such a small little guy) and he dropped his tail. She sutured him, which is to remain for 14 days (soft stool will pass around the suture) I don't care about his tail, i just want him to be OK. He is recieving my special attention to his ambient temperature and cleanliness of cage.

Please, send him your best wishes.

Thank you,
Sam.

Is this the same thing as "Prolapse"?
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good luck with it. hope all goes well.