Lindasjackson
Chameleon Enthusiast
Are they sperm plugs? I didn’t know they did that.
Keeping chameleon in main room of the house + basking too much?
- Thread starter PlanetRemulak
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I lived in defcon 5 the first year
What do you mean... They are very hard to miss.
Lindasjackson
Chameleon Enthusiast
Unless your talking about a poo I have no idea what your talking about,sorry.
Lindasjackson
Chameleon Enthusiast
My male Jackson’s never dropped anything except poo.
Then you have not seen them yet. If they shed them regularly which Beman does. They look like shed small wet pieces of skin. Almost looks like egg whites when they dry. I dunno hard to explain. If they do not shed them properly it is almost always a husbandry issue. They can be easy to miss because they are not huge and if they come out with the fecal you may not see them. Beman just leaves them like presents on his branches.
Lindasjackson
Chameleon Enthusiast
Nope, I’ve had 3 male Jackson’s chams and never seen plugs dropped.
Lindasjackson
Chameleon Enthusiast
Interesting. Now I’ll know what to watch for if Jackson’s do this as well.
looks like this. They typically will rub them off on the branches https://www.chameleonforums.com/threads/sperm-plug-not-coming-out.176458/
Lindasjackson
Chameleon Enthusiast
Okay, now I know! One of my Jackson’s chams from years ago had a stuck sperm plug I had to remove but I have never seen them on branches. Maybe they just dropped them and I didn’t notice it when cleaning.
PlanetRemulak
Avid Member
i definitely meant sperm plugs - sorry! Actually hemipenal plugs is probably what I calling them. From what I understand, male chameleons also shed skin on the surface of their hemipenes along with everything else. They seem to drop them with poo/urate like Beman said. The first time I noticed one was in early August. I thought for sure Beau had worms (it was all wound up around the poo) and I nearly lost my mind over it until I realized what it was. Gross, right?
He recently shed and had one sticking out of his vent, looked like a piece of dental floss hanging from his butt. I hoped and prayed it wouldn’t get lodged and I’d have to remove it myself, but fortunately this time he managed to expel it on his own.
PlanetRemulak
Avid Member
“Merry Christmas. Thanks for all the bugs and don’t say I never gave you anything.”Then you have not seen them yet. If they shed them regularly which Beman does. They look like shed small wet pieces of skin. Almost looks like egg whites when they dry. I dunno hard to explain. If they do not shed them properly it is almost always a husbandry issue. They can be easy to miss because they are not huge and if they come out with the fecal you may not see them. Beman just leaves them like presents on his branches.
