EKEKO
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This morning I was surprised by the sight of a 3 inch long poop in my female panther's cage. She is a year old, have had her with me for 9 months. She lives at a constant 60-70 temp with a basking spot of 80 and humidity levels ranging from 65 to 75. Full screen cage dressed with a few fake vines, real branches and a small umbrella plant to keep humidity in. Use a 24"repti sun 5.0, zoomed basking lamp with daylight heat bulb(60 watt), automatic mister and I mist her manually 4 times a day. Her diet consists of crickets mainly but have periodically switched to mealworms, phoenix worms, silkworms and the occasional waxworm , crickets gutloaded with repashybug burger, dusted with Herptivite and Calcium...5 every other day All free range method. Handling is very rare, maybe once a week for 10 minutes if that much.
A few days ago I decided to try to feed her a superworm again...and without failure she seemed to have trouble digesting the hard exoskeleton. She didn't defecate for a few days but I wasnt too concerned as she doesn't eat that much. Well it came out today and it was scary. Also realized that the urate was relatively creamy and white but what seemed to be the blockage was crunchy and quite hard.
Thoughts?
A few days ago I decided to try to feed her a superworm again...and without failure she seemed to have trouble digesting the hard exoskeleton. She didn't defecate for a few days but I wasnt too concerned as she doesn't eat that much. Well it came out today and it was scary. Also realized that the urate was relatively creamy and white but what seemed to be the blockage was crunchy and quite hard.
Thoughts?
