Poop/Runs question

minimoe80

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Ok guys and gals.. Sorry to do this to you, but my Leo pooped like this yesturday at like 4pm and I cleaned it up he/she has now just done it again this very moment. In the month that I have had him I have never seen this so I am a little worried/concerned..

Let me apologize in advance, but I am going to take a picture of it with my phone and post it....
I dont know if you can really tell from the picture, but its obviously real wet and runny. its like a real real real light and dull greenish color I guess I would call it, with the white (calcium powder) mixed in with it.. The pictures are actually kind of easier to make out and see if you dont enlarge them.
 

acpart

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Sometimes if you catch the poop right after they do it, it looks wetter and "mushier" than it will later. It may be fine. If the gecko is housed with others, separate it temporarily. Keep track of whether it's eating and how often it's pooping. The white you're seeing is urates, not calcium powder. If the gecko has shed recently, sometimes the poops look different. If they continue to look odd, and especially if they become really smelly, take a sample to the vet to be checked for parasites.

Aliza
 

minimoe80

Love My Leo
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Florida
Sometimes if you catch the poop right after they do it, it looks wetter and "mushier" than it will later. It may be fine. If the gecko is housed with others, separate it temporarily. Keep track of whether it's eating and how often it's pooping. The white you're seeing is urates, not calcium powder. If the gecko has shed recently, sometimes the poops look different. If they continue to look odd, and especially if they become really smelly, take a sample to the vet to be checked for parasites.

Aliza

Ya I know what you mean by when you first catch a fresh poop its a lil wetter and then dries. I have noticed that with his previous poops... This is all together different from what he/she has been doing though. She also has not eaten in two days now (But I have just Totally redone his/her habitat) and from what I have been told, changes like that in habitat can tend to put them off of eating for a few days.

Also to give you a lil background on my Gecko you can read my introduction post here - http://geckoforums.net/showthread.php?t=67925 I have been nursing this lil fella back to health to began with
 

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