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Didn't mean to alarm, but the one thing you can try playing with is diet. Increasing fibre content (such as fruit and veggies) should help soften up the stool and you should then see if the hemipenes keeps everting. You could also try mixing some Metamucil in his drinking water.
I was given a New Guinea side-necked turtle that was constantly everting his phallus and we were considering having an elastic ligature sewn around the cloacal opening to remedy this (yes, this is a standard procedure for this sort of phenomenom), but I found once I had him on a corrected diet this issue went away. The best thing is to try to be preventative, correct the issue before it becomes a problem. I'm sure the last thing you want is your tegu to develop a problem with his hemipenes.
I was given a New Guinea side-necked turtle that was constantly everting his phallus and we were considering having an elastic ligature sewn around the cloacal opening to remedy this (yes, this is a standard procedure for this sort of phenomenom), but I found once I had him on a corrected diet this issue went away. The best thing is to try to be preventative, correct the issue before it becomes a problem. I'm sure the last thing you want is your tegu to develop a problem with his hemipenes.