HELP! pieces lost after mating

[ChaoFan]

Hello All,
just now one of my breeding pair mated and afterwards, just after the male moved away from the female, i noticed on the ground these two things (sorry, English is not my first language and i do not know the technical term) covered in a bit of blood. There is some blood (just traces) also on the males genitals so i believe they are coming from him.
They are around 4-5 mm long, they appear to have the consistency of a cartilage.

The geckos are both 2 years old animals, over 93g him and 81 g her, it is not the first time he mates (he did it last year and 2 weeks ago and 2 fertile eggs were laid today by the female) and i am not sure about the female, i got her few months ago.

Should i worry?
This just happened less than one hour ago, maybe it's early to say, but they are both behaving normally. the male cleaned his stuff as normal and there is no prolapse.

Please let me know if i should give more information.

Thanks,
Michele

 

[LEOPARD1]

I dont know what that is but on the bright side they are doing well, cleaned up and nothing is prolapsed?

 

[kholtme]

Is there anything missing on either gecko? Inspect them well and make sure that there are no injuries.


Your English is great

 

[ChaoFan]

Hello Both,
Thanks for your fast replies, yes, they cleaned themselves up, nothing was prolapsing, nothing is missing and this morning I also found they are still behaving normally and there was no blood loss from neither of them (I checked just in case...).

After hours of looking the issue up yesterday I found "sperm plugs" could be the answer to what happened to my male, can anybody confirm this from the picture I posted? If that's the case, should I give him some kind of treatment?

Thanks

 

[acpart]

Yes, these are sperm plugs. Just leftover . . . sperm . . . that dries up. Sometimes I find them dangling from my male's vent and I just pull them out. Nothing to worry about.

Aliza

 

[ChaoFan]

Thanks Aliza!
First time I saw them, I feel much better now! I should keep him more busy then

Michele

 

[kimwal]

I agree, it is sperm plug, I have never seen this myself but I was researching as my male gecko and female gecko mated and there was a drop of blood afterward on the floor of the cage. The only time I have ever seen this. Anyway-I learned all about sperm plugs but I do not think that was what caused the drop of blood. Also my male gecko has no prolapse. The female appears gravid now. kim