Help!! Dubia vs cricket

[Spikeshuman]

I recently bought a dubia colony. Spike will no longer eat her crickets. This isnt a problem.. my concern however.. is her poop. She had normal solid poop and solid urates while on crickets. Since switching to dubia her poops are no longer formed. The come out all ... crumbly is the best way to put it. Crumbled digested roaches and liquid. I sent in a stool sample incase its parasites.. but she JUST had a fecal done less than two weeks ago and there were absolutely no parasites. So is a dubia fed dragons poop less solid than a cricket fed?? I may actually reconsider the dubia as a whole if that is the case. She is making a huge mess.. has to be bathed daily.. its not a fun situation.

 

[randommonks]

No I've never seen that before when switching from crickets to dubia. It might just be the new feeder that's the issue and once she gets used to the dubias, the poos should return to normal. Are you sure that she just hasn't been running through her poos and scattering it?

 

[Spikeshuman]

I have watched her poo.. its like shes squirting out a puddle of mushed roach. I hope that is the case because I dont think she would eat crickets now if i tried. Shes been eating dubia since nov 3.. but on ONLY dubia.. for about a week.

 

[randommonks]

What are you feeding the dubia and how often are you bathing her? What else are you feeding her other than dubia?

 

[Spikeshuman]

The dubia have dog food and oranges.. a week or so ago I threw some cereal in there. They also had water crystals before I switched to oranges a day ago. She was getting collard greens with a small bit of celery tops chopped in. Since eating the dubia she slowly stopped eating her veggies entirely. She has not eaten a veggie in about a week. She had the runny poop from when I began the dubia.. before I fed them cereal or oranges.. just dog food and water crystals.

 

[Spikeshuman]

Oh.. and I try to give her baths every other day.. sometimes we go 2 days.. I had to bathe her yesterday even tho she had a bath the day before because of the poo.

 

[FishboneNC]

My guy just had the opposite effect!
I ran out of roaches and got some pet store crickets to tie him over...then the messy, runny poo!
I also got some more phoenix worms,...ran out for a few days.

He even FARTED!
I didn't know they did, but while changing out the veggie dish...I noticed him come over to the 'poop area', the tail went up and 'pisshh', got a whiff of a bad smell then he followed up with a good messy runny stinky poo!

Hopefully all this is due to a diet change!

 

[Spikeshuman]

Since the roaches.. I could swear shes been farting. We will be in the car.. and shes on my shoulder and all of a sudden I smell dragon poo.. but there's no poo!!