Hi,
My 3-year-old dragon has started having issues with very hard urate causing constipation. She eats a bowl of salad every day (mix of green beans, kale, turnip greens, bell pepper, chard, etc), and then every other day I feed crickets (usually 6-10 large) and 5 superworms. For a while she would come out of her tank every day and run around and was pooping daily. Then she became more reluctant to come out and the pooping dwindled to about once a week. When she does poop, she's obviously straining, and eventually calcified urate shoots out followed by a huge pile of healthy poop.
Today she struggled for so long she gave up and I had to massage her and help her to get it out. I'm worried she might prolapse or become impacted if this continues. Any ideas about the cause of the constipation and what I might change to help her? I feel like she should be well-hydrated with her diet but maybe she isn't.
My 3-year-old dragon has started having issues with very hard urate causing constipation. She eats a bowl of salad every day (mix of green beans, kale, turnip greens, bell pepper, chard, etc), and then every other day I feed crickets (usually 6-10 large) and 5 superworms. For a while she would come out of her tank every day and run around and was pooping daily. Then she became more reluctant to come out and the pooping dwindled to about once a week. When she does poop, she's obviously straining, and eventually calcified urate shoots out followed by a huge pile of healthy poop.
Today she struggled for so long she gave up and I had to massage her and help her to get it out. I'm worried she might prolapse or become impacted if this continues. Any ideas about the cause of the constipation and what I might change to help her? I feel like she should be well-hydrated with her diet but maybe she isn't.