Normal Poop?

Alejandro17

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I have a year old panther and I noticed his poop have a lil red in it should I be worried here is a pic He eats Crickets and horn worms...
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Howdy Alejandro,

That portion of his poop is his urates that came from his kidneys. Ideally, those kidney waste products should be bone-white. Any shading towards yellow or even orange suggests the possibility of sub-optimal hydration or dehydration or at some point even kidney damage. Your photo looks like the orange portion is showing crystal formations which, if it continues, is definitely something to be concerned about. Continuous production of crystals like that is not considered normal. Peaking his hydration should be your goal at this point and to see if you can bring his urates bask to normal color and condition. Following proper hydration techniques should be enough to turn it around. If he isn't a big drinker then you might consider feeding him the largest sized hornworms (since you have them already) that he can consume. Large hornworms are equivalent to living water balloons and can help turn things around if he isn't drinking on his own. But go for misting/drinking first so that he doesn't get pumped-up with too many calories from hornworms :eek:.

With some chameleons, it may take many minutes of warm-water misting using a handheld, pump-up misting bottle to trigger their drinking process. Try using water hot enough that, when misted from a foot away, is still slightly warm when it reaches your chameleon. Don't blast him with it but do sneak-up with it starting with his surroundings and then working it up onto his tail a little bit. Back-off if he doesn't like it right away. Start again a minute later. At some point you'll be giving him a full body shower with the mist bottle. When I say mist, I mean more of a misty-drippy-rainy coverage than a "mist". Just watch his reaction and tune your misting technique to prevent him from getting upset. If it doesn't trigger him to drink within 10-20 minutes of effort on the first round, try again hours later or the next day. There is no guarantee that he'll get his drinking process triggered by this method but I've found that probably 90% of the time it'll work within a couple of days. If peaking his hydration doesn't solve the issue in a week or so then we can investigate other possibilities.


This is what you are hoping to accomplish:

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Automated system drinking example:
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Examples of the typical Home Depot type pump-up $7 handheld misters:
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