Green Poop?

[Brittraff]

I cant tell when its started, its been a week or so maybe? My dragons poops are always GREEN. like super greeny-blue and big. Im wondering if he has a parasite or maybe its the new dragon pellets i started feeding him?

I would also like to mention his poops are well formed, like normal just green and maybe a bit bigger than usual. He has also adapted the habit of only pooping in the bath.

 

[daner923]

Sounds like the pellets to me. How much of his diet is pellets?

 

[Brittraff]

Sounds like the pellets to me. How much of his diet is pellets?

I moved him onto a full pellet diet supplemented with horn and wax worms plus crickets like two- three days a week

 

[daner923]

Whaa? How old is he? I've never heard of a dragon that could get by primarily on pellets - they need the variety of protein, nutrients, and moisture from live bugs.

 

[Brittraff]

Whaa? How old is he? I've never heard of a dragon that could get by primarily on pellets - they need the variety of protein, nutrients, and moisture from live bugs.

Well ive just gotten to a point where with school its too hard to get enough crickets, i had to buy them every day, which i cant simply do anymore. He just snacks on his pellets then i throw some veggies in and some bugs. He actually loves the pellets, im not sure about how good they are for him. he also drinks water from his bowl so that covers some moisture there. I was actually like O.O the first time i saw him just drink.

 

[daner923]

Umm... why don't you just buy more crickets at once, and keep them somewhere? Are you giving him regular baths? How is he getting the proper calcium and vitamin supplements?

 

[Brittraff]

Umm... why don't you just buy more crickets at once, and keep them somewhere? Are you giving him regular baths? How is he getting the proper calcium and vitamin supplements?

He gets a bath every other day, i dust the food with the powder, along with all the bugs that go in and the veggies. I did keep them in the cricket keeper, i just never got around to getting a bigger one due to monetary issues so i didn't know the pellets would be bad i was just going off of what the label and a friend of mine said

 

[daner923]

They're okay as part of a diet, but beardies, especailly growing ones, need a lot of very healthy protein in their diet, which is why they have to eat so many bugs. Most growing dragons eat upwards of 50 crickets or other appropriately sized feeders every day!