dragonlover3
Sub-Adult Member
Hi,
This is probably a nutty question but here goes. Is it ok/normal for a beardie to pass only a small urate without poo? Is her extra daily urate OK or a sign of a brewing problem?
For the past 3 days my girl Zhaan has had her regular poo with urate in the morning bath as usual, then in the late morning to early afternoon she's been passing just a tiny soft urate with a few drops of fluid. She has never done that before....none of my beardies have ever done that before.
She did have 2 pretty firm urates almost 2 weeks ago so I gave her an extra bath both of those days and persuaded her to drink a bit more than usual, well insisted really, I syringe fed her some extra water. Since then her urates have been fine. {yes, I fish the urate out of the bath water to check for hardness every day on all 4 of my beardies.} The urates are fine now too, soft and holding their form but she's having that extra tiny one daily?
Nothing has changed. Tank set up the same, all 3 area temps perfect, UVB is Reptisun10.0 tube. Her diet hasn't changed and she's had nothing new. For the past 3 days her diet has been baby collard leaves, the light green ones, her fav, mixed with mustard greens or turnip greens and shredded butternut squash. I float all my beardies salads for the extra hydration. All of this is routine that she has had before with no problem. No fruit, ever. I don't feed any of my beardies any fruit at all. For live food, she's had small to med supers, med. dubia roaches and about 10-15 wax worms as treats thru out the past 4 or 5 days. She's about a 5 or 6 month old juvie so I still let her eat her lively food till she full and quits eating them twice a day.
She's acting fine. No change in her behavior. With the temps being in the mid to high 70's for the past 4 days here in New York we've been able to take our beardies out to get some sun. She appears to enjoy being outside, no stress at all from her.
HELP!....Is this normal/OK?
Amanda
This is probably a nutty question but here goes. Is it ok/normal for a beardie to pass only a small urate without poo? Is her extra daily urate OK or a sign of a brewing problem?
For the past 3 days my girl Zhaan has had her regular poo with urate in the morning bath as usual, then in the late morning to early afternoon she's been passing just a tiny soft urate with a few drops of fluid. She has never done that before....none of my beardies have ever done that before.
She did have 2 pretty firm urates almost 2 weeks ago so I gave her an extra bath both of those days and persuaded her to drink a bit more than usual, well insisted really, I syringe fed her some extra water. Since then her urates have been fine. {yes, I fish the urate out of the bath water to check for hardness every day on all 4 of my beardies.} The urates are fine now too, soft and holding their form but she's having that extra tiny one daily?
Nothing has changed. Tank set up the same, all 3 area temps perfect, UVB is Reptisun10.0 tube. Her diet hasn't changed and she's had nothing new. For the past 3 days her diet has been baby collard leaves, the light green ones, her fav, mixed with mustard greens or turnip greens and shredded butternut squash. I float all my beardies salads for the extra hydration. All of this is routine that she has had before with no problem. No fruit, ever. I don't feed any of my beardies any fruit at all. For live food, she's had small to med supers, med. dubia roaches and about 10-15 wax worms as treats thru out the past 4 or 5 days. She's about a 5 or 6 month old juvie so I still let her eat her lively food till she full and quits eating them twice a day.
She's acting fine. No change in her behavior. With the temps being in the mid to high 70's for the past 4 days here in New York we've been able to take our beardies out to get some sun. She appears to enjoy being outside, no stress at all from her.
HELP!....Is this normal/OK?
Amanda
