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Ya'll know what these are?
No they're NOT sperm plugs...
Answer later tonite...

Scott J. Michaels DVM (the "evil doc" LOL)
Serpent City

Female plugs?

This is a sperm plug: (from Poss)

....tasty frogs' legs from KFC!!!

Any time.........

*grin*

copulatory plugs?

Ovulatory plugs?

or

Buggers?

Those are my best guesses
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Tosha

"Nihil facimus sed id bene facimus"

7.33.0 Ball Python (Harry and Fluffy and gang)
1.0.0 Angolan Python (Anakin Skywalker)
0.0.1 Green Tree Python (Verdi - yeah I know but my kids love the book)
0.2.0 Feline (Pippen and Pandora)
0.0.1 Desert Tortoise (Pope John Paul aka JP )
2.2.1 Fish (1,2,3,4)
0.0.2 frogs rescued from pool skimmer

sheds from inside female scent glands ? (are they even scent glands.?.that's what we always call them but I have no real idea if the females' actually have scent glands or just little pockets full of gunk in their vents???)

....either that or a second guess would be boogers and you really should use a tissue and wash your hands?...

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so what is it?

How about dried up musk from adult females??? Sometimes females push out stuff as well, just my guess, Anthony McCain-McCain's Reptiles.

I really don't know. It's something gross that was discharged from a living creature? Maybe a snake booger since it doesn't have a hair in it LOL. Please tell us!
Bill

I know what they are! I cheated though

My question is... how often do they turn up?
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1.0 gorgeous spider ball python
2.2 het for axanthic
5.20 normals
Blazingreptiles.comup & running!

well, I was mining for gold one day when.....

actually.....

These are solidified concretions from females' post-cloacal sulci, or in english...the sacks we probe to determine sex of an individual....

The mucopolysaccharides, or mucosal secretions, help lubricate the surface of the area...they accumulate, take on the shape of the sulci, and then while still soft, are eliminated often at the time of ecdysis (shed)...exposed to air, they harden into something you can sell on eBay!

I find them periodically, maybe once or so a year for any given female....

OK now, carry on, get back to work ya'll...

Scott

PS-a keeper 05 Pastel female

Scott , thanks for the big words man, looks like my guess was right after all (in plain english without the big words however)... Later, Anthony McCain-McCain's Reptiles...