is this normal poop?

[pwent55]

Ameleo here is 5-6 months old just started feeding him adult crickets.. he seems to handle eating them fine, about 6+ a day, and plenty of silk worms when i have them, wax worms every once and a great while.

but since i started the adult crickets his poo has changed into these crunchy dry looking turds
the urate is pure white i havent seen any coloration to it other then that so i think thats good

i have a little dripper going when ever it decides to work ( i have to fiddle with it daily) and i mist him every day when i get home from work


so i was just concerned if his turds are healthy still are the crickets to big for him and hes haveing truble digesting them or what

he seems healthy to me very unfriendly, which sucks but healthy

 

[carol5208]

yes, you can see the undigested cricket parts in the poop which it should not be like that. What are your basking temps set at?

 

[thatoneguy]

looks like he ate substrate. do you use any? if you do im guessing shredded coconut husks?

 

[carol5208]

looks like he ate substrate. do you use any? if you do im guessing shredded coconut husks?

i thought I was seeing cricket legs? Maybe I need to get my glasses changed! I don't know I still think it is crickets..

 

[thatoneguy]

kinda looks like a bent up leaf. could be a cricket leaf tho lol

 

[gratefulj]

Looks like an undigested cricket. What size cricks are you feeding him?

 

[justjumpit621]

Also needs more water, they are very dry and I can't see any urates. They need to be heavily misted multiple times a day, a dripper system is also a good idea.

 

[pwent55]

ambient tempt at the top of the cage is around 90's just under his basking lamp its about 95 theres no substraite just newspaper and i have like aquarium glass marbles on the top of the pythos pot so he cant get that

are the crickets just to big for him to digest maybe?

like i said i have a dripper going and i mist him once or so every day
im not sure if there is supposed to be urates with every turd id say about half of his turds have one laying beside it but they are all perfectly white i was assuming he was getting enough water because of there color

 

[pwent55]

does he look dehydrated?
i'm not sure what signs to look for other then the eyes, and i still dont know what sunken in eyes truely look like

 

[justjumpit621]

well you should mist a bit more because of the humidity, but a dripper is good for the hydration. I have seen this once before with one of my own chameleons, but i didn't know the cause either and it was just once. Try something with more "meat" maybe? Like Dubia's.

 

[thatoneguy]

does he munch on plants at all? sorry its bothering me cause i swear i can see some plants but im probly just blind!

 

[justjumpit621]

does he look dehydrated?
i'm not sure what signs to look for other then the eyes, and i still dont know what sunken in eyes truely look like

To ME, only my opinion, he does look a bit dehydrated. His eyes look a tad sunken in. Pretty much sunken eyes are what it sounds like. They seem sunken into the skull.

 

[pwent55]

he has one small pythos plant that i have noticed triangular shapes missing from the leaves so, i'm assuming, he is munching some

i hate the fake plants i have in there i just needed something to provide more places to hide for him when he was younger "and those all look intact"

i'm gonna be building him a larger cage soon with plenty of live "munchable" plants



any one have ideas for a better drip system then "the Little Dripper" i have

i thought it was a great system in theory, but it lacks a consistant drip and usually stops before its even half way drained
i need something thats reliable, ya know something that will actually work while i'm not there to constantly fus with it

 

[carol5208]

the dripper should drip til the water gets below the spicket. If it is stopping midway there is something wrong. I think they work great and are all I use.

 

[carol5208]

the dripper should drip til the water gets below the spicket. If it is stopping midway there is something wrong. I think they work great and are all I use. try taking the tube off and setting it up on something(I use the lid) set it on that and the water drips straight through the screen. I have never had any problems.

 

[Elizadolots]

It never hurts to up the hydration. I really think, if this were my chameleon, I would step down in size on the crickets. It might not be the root cause of the problem, but it's a cheap thing to try and just might make things better.