adasimone
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I've had Thorson since April. She's somewhere between a year and two years old. She is terrible at pooping.
Since we got her, she goes weeks between pooping. After a week or so, I start giving her daily baths with belly rubs and feeding her pumpkin and prunes with olive oil. It takes up to a week of this before she will finally poop. She's noticeably bloated before she poops and deflates like a balloon after. There was a chunk of time where she was pooping about once a week without help, but I can't think of anything we were doing different then.
She never shows any signs of distress or discomfort when she's really bloated. She still eats and never has a dark beard or stress marks.
She had diarrhea (still 2 weeks between poops) so we took her to the vet in May. The vet saw no parasites but gave her antibiotics. This cleared up the diarrhea and she hasn't had it since.
She has huge urates. Like, 1.5-2 inches long. Does anybody have any advice to help her poop better?
Terrarium: Exoterra vivarium 36"x18"x18". She spends a lot of time on her window perch where we move her heater and have another UV light. She used to be in a 50 gallon tank. Before we got her her substrate was loose. We had her on slate tile in her old tank and she's on shelf liner in her new.
Temps: Hot side 100, Cold side 80.
Food: Currently she get's salad only for 2-3 days. It's always mustard greens with an extra ingredient. We rotate through bell peppers, butternut squash, pumpkin and blueberries. The salad is sprinked with calcium. Once she eats at least 2-3 solid salad meals, she gets a roach day. She gets ~5 smallish dubia roaches with a small salad. All the roaches are smaller than her eye space. I always make sure she's got warm temperatures after she eats.
She used to have a much worse diet (mealworms and not a lot of salad) but that's been better for months now.
Since we got her, she goes weeks between pooping. After a week or so, I start giving her daily baths with belly rubs and feeding her pumpkin and prunes with olive oil. It takes up to a week of this before she will finally poop. She's noticeably bloated before she poops and deflates like a balloon after. There was a chunk of time where she was pooping about once a week without help, but I can't think of anything we were doing different then.
She never shows any signs of distress or discomfort when she's really bloated. She still eats and never has a dark beard or stress marks.
She had diarrhea (still 2 weeks between poops) so we took her to the vet in May. The vet saw no parasites but gave her antibiotics. This cleared up the diarrhea and she hasn't had it since.
She has huge urates. Like, 1.5-2 inches long. Does anybody have any advice to help her poop better?
Terrarium: Exoterra vivarium 36"x18"x18". She spends a lot of time on her window perch where we move her heater and have another UV light. She used to be in a 50 gallon tank. Before we got her her substrate was loose. We had her on slate tile in her old tank and she's on shelf liner in her new.
Temps: Hot side 100, Cold side 80.
Food: Currently she get's salad only for 2-3 days. It's always mustard greens with an extra ingredient. We rotate through bell peppers, butternut squash, pumpkin and blueberries. The salad is sprinked with calcium. Once she eats at least 2-3 solid salad meals, she gets a roach day. She gets ~5 smallish dubia roaches with a small salad. All the roaches are smaller than her eye space. I always make sure she's got warm temperatures after she eats.
She used to have a much worse diet (mealworms and not a lot of salad) but that's been better for months now.