Orange lump in poop?

BeardedBeings · Feb 22, 2018

*warning, poop pics*

Hi, so I was checking my beardies poop when I saw this orange-thing in his poop? I haven’t feed him anything like carrots or squash that would give an orange pigment. Should I be really worried about this?

Drache613 · Feb 22, 2018

Hello,

That is really pretty normal. They do tend to get an orangish type of discoloration sometimes,
to the urate portion. How much supplementation do you give to him & what types are they?
A lot of times, too much calcium or vitamin supplementation may change the color & or the
consistency of the urates in particular. Were the urates hard, or soft or grainy?

Tracie

BeardedBeings · Feb 23, 2018

i use Fluker’s calcium with d3 and a multivitamin (i think it’s reptivitamin). I like to lightly dust his food 5x a week, the multivitamin 1x a time week, and a day off. His urate seemed pretty normal, like a delicate-slightly moist-chalk. I was talking to some other people online about this as well, and it came to mind that I had just given the crickets a new diet (flukers hi-cal cricket feed) along with some extra carrots than normal. Could that also affect this?

CooperDragon · Feb 23, 2018

Yeah the diet of the bugs will often be relayed to your dragon, especially if they have eaten recently (gutloading). This is usually a good thing so you can pass on hydration to your dragon. Try offering the bugs a variety of veges to munch on and it shouldn't be a problem. I don't bother with the commercial feeds though unless I already have some on hand.

BeardedBeings · Feb 23, 2018

Alright, super. Thank you!!

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