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Please Help Me!!! Hemipenes Gone?!?!

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Hey everyone, In advance I will be posting pictures of my pastel ball python later, hopefully soon... hemipenes and all.

So I recently purchased this rockin deal for a female pastel, couldn't pass her up. Everything goes great great guy, fast shipping, good follow through. I popped her immediatley, and couldn't really get a good grip on her and she was fighting me so I kinda just said ok, female.

So a week ago, I get her out checking through my bins and I decide to try her again. This time no struggle at all. But looks way different then any female I have ever seen.

Dark red where it looks to have had hemipnes, same color of hemipenes I have seen on males.

Does anyone have pictures of fallen off hemipenes, or maybe some useful information they could send my way. I have been all over the net and have found nothing at all.

Thank you for reading.
 
Can you probe the animal in question? Most babies are easy to pop and determine one sex or the other, but some are just plain difficult. While popping is my preferred way to sex a baby BP, I do probe some to be sure.
 
I have contemplated on picking up some probes, but none yet... I think this will be the situation that pushes me over to getting some.

She is a 2010, and is still relativley small at 300 Grams, very girthy, but not very long at all.

Thanks Matt.
 
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