Stool "ratio"

[lloorren]

I've started Apollo on dubia roaches that I am breeding, and I noticed that his poop is much more "white" than brown / the white part is longer. Is this something I should be concerned about?

 

[indyana]

That does happen occasionally, but usually the brown will be larger. Was this a one-time thing?

 

[Keeboard]

Hmm... Were the roaches you fed him shedding? My gecko had completely white poop after he ate a cricket about to shed. It was a one time thing.

 

[lloorren]

That does happen occasionally, but usually the brown will be larger. Was this a one-time thing?

It appears so. Isn't it true that the white attached to the poops is the "urine"? Or is that usually separately expelled?

Hmm... Were the roaches you fed him shedding? My gecko had completely white poop after he ate a cricket about to shed. It was a one time thing.

Actually yes they were - for some reason all my roaches seem to be shedding at the same

 

[indyana]

Usually, it's a larger brown piece of fecal matter and a smaller white urate (yep, gecko urine). You can also have some liquid, depending how much water the gecko has taken in lately. Occasionally, I see a urate alone or, as you mentioned, a very large urate. Tends to happen when they are digesting a large meal.

As long as it only happens every so often, it's fine. I would be worried if, for example, every time the gecko went it was a very large urate.