Often the section of urate attached to the poop can often cause orange discolouration, again, nothing to worry about, and with that, the longer urate is in the body, the more it will crystallise and turn orange. This can cause more issues in both trying to hydrate, and trying to get them to poop so don’t do it (more info, here). Slightly orange urate isn’t an issue, so don’t start dunking that dragon in a bath forcing hydration. High sugar food items such and fruit (again, shouldn’t be fed), peppers, sweet potato, pumpkin, carrot, for example can also cause these issues. High yeasts are cause by too much sugar within the dragons’ diet with bee pollen being a major cause here.īee pollen is a great addition to the diet but can be overly used.īest delivery for bee pollen would be using it as an insect gut-load and using the Arcadia products such as their supplements and Dragon Fuel, which has it in safe low yet effective levels. Hard/orange urate is often instantly linked to dehydration, but high yeasts can also cause this issue. Water should only ever be provided via a small water bowl in the enclosure (not big enough to lay in), and, fully gut-loaded and hydrated live-food. This is a very common issue and can be fixed by restricting fluid intake. This can also be linked to a parasite issue with Coccidia being likely, but also other health related issues.Įxcess water with the poop is exactly that, the dragon is being over hydrated and simply trying to expel this unneeded fluid. Again, fruit shouldn’t even be in the diet really, nor used as a gut-load for your insects IF they are also being fed to the dragon. Also, feeding fruit (which you shouldn’t) can also cause such.īut it obviously can indicate that there IS a parasite issue present.įruit can cause blood in poop. Loose poop can be a reaction to certain greens. So lets go over some basics you can try are rule out – Just urate Not good (from google images)But the cause for such issues are plentiful, from food being fed, gut-load being used.There are visual clues that can indicate issues are present though. Unfortunately, and honestly, you can’t answer this question properly without a proper Vet/Lab based faecal screening being done. One question I’m constantly asked is, “ does my dragons poop look okay?“.
Dragon keeper 2 lizard chapter 3 series#
This is part 1 of a small series covering poop, parasites, treatment and cleaning, and the continued wellbeing of your Bearded Dragon (but relevant to most species) *Poop 101* (poop photo included and needed for the explanation, so don’t moan)
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