Nicodemayo
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I hoping to shed some light on my situation and learn a little more about hemipenal buldges and how to identify sperm plugs that haven't been passed. My ambilobe panther chameleon is almost 5 months old (hatched 9-15-07). Ive read up on these sperm plugs and all the issues that can arise and how to treat them (aside from a vet of couse). I read up on Kosmos panthers sperm plugs and how he had problems passing them but it doesn't look anything like his yet thank god. Right now thats not really my concern but im wondering how many other people have seen an significant increase of sperm plugs at this age, and how often do you see sperm plugs passed? I know this is the age where hes really starting to mature and im wanting to know what to look for if it ever becomes a problem. At the base of his tale he always has his buldge like usual but sometime it appears as if its extra swollen and something wants to come out and i'll check back on him an hour or so later and it will look like normal and theres no feces or sperm plug to be found. I know he passes them because I'll sometimes find them stuck to the leaves. Ive noticed something strange yesterday and today. Yesterday evening about 2hrs before his lights went out i was watching him and he started to poop and the poop was fairly small but very normal looking and had no solid pieces of insects or anything in it. I cleaned it up and let him go to sleep. About an hour after i fed him and gave him a good spray this morning, i walked in to see him and his hemipenal flap or whatever its called was gaping wide open. I freaked out and ran back to my room to get my camera and when i came back it was closed up and a piece of urate was on one of the leaves, without poop. I got a little concerned that there wasnt poop with it so i gave him a long shower. Not to long ago i found a very small piece of poop with a small piece of urate on one of the leaves (all his urates look very normal and white with no orange) and a sperm plug stuck to his foot. What im wondering is if he might be pooping these small amounts out to try to pass sperm plugs? Now it appears that one side of his buldge is normal and one it lumping up more. I'm thinking he has one more side to pass and hopefully it will come out with his next poop. What do you guys think?