Poop

[MsDeleon]

I recently got my leo from a reptiles store. I've had "It" (unsure of sex, still to young) for roughly a week. Today I noticed that when it pooped there was no brown and only white. There is 4 white droppings in the cage and nothing else.. is my leo sick?

 

[UnicornSpirit]

When it's just white it means it's just pee (the urates) and not any fecal matter. Maybe because it has not been eating anything/much lately and doesn't have anything to pass through? I hope it warms up to home soon so it can star pooping/eating regularly.

 

[MsDeleon]

My leo has been eating the mealworms more then the crickets, I'm in the middle of a cage cleaning and all the 4 crickets from this morning were still in there. Before today my leo has had normal poops mixed with the brown. Could this be part of my leo shedding as today its real white?

 

[LeopardShade]

It's nothing serious, the white parts of their feces are actually urates, basically gecko urine in a solid form, they cannot produce liquid urine as far as I know, but if I'm wrong, someone please let me know.

 

[fl_orchidslave]

As Carly said, the white part is solid urine, urates, but geckos do have liquid urine sometimes. Also, please don't leave crickets loose in the cage. If they aren't eaten within a short time- 15 minutes, pull them out. They bite lizards, can cause injury, and eat poop thus carrying parasites. If your gecko prefers worms to crickets, it would do just fine on a staple diet of worms, with the occasional cricket treat.

 

[OnlineGeckos]

And when they are about to shed, usually they don't eat for a day or two. So nothing to worry about. When they don't eat, they can still pass out urates.

 

[MsDeleon]

Thanks everyone, oddly enough he is back to his normal color. For some reason he was sleeping on the cold side of the tank and when he went back to the warm side his pale color went away. His poops are back to normal again. =)