Urate is very orange

[Anthony Hendrick]

Here's a pic of my panthers urate, half of it is very very orange and I just need some advice as to whether this is a kidney problem or not, thanks. He does generally gets calcium every which two vets told me is the way to go as an overdose is practically unheard of in their experience but MBD is rampant.



Steve MacQueen

Type - Panther
Born - April 2008
Colours - green, turqoise & red a white stripe
Location - Ireland

Food - Locusts crickets and very very very occasionally gets a wax worm or two (fed on carrots, papaya, peppers, peas, pears, oranges, apple, kiwi, fish food occasionally, dandelion leaves occassionally)
- He gets roughly 4 crickets a day (He just very recently changed from nearly 100% locusts to 100% crickets which is good news in my opinion)

House - Glass Vivarium (1m x 1m x 50cm deep)
- 1 big Real Ficus Plant,2 smaller ficus plants and 1 dracaena Bi-colour
- A lot of fake hanging Ficus and Hibiscus for back drop
- plenty of appropriately thick vines with a good basking spot
- pebbles on bottom for drainage (recently removed orchid bark substrate and put in pebbles in order to install a basic drainage system
- basking spot is at eye level with a view of a forest.

Light - 90cm Repti sun bulb left on 12 hours/day (bulb is not too old)
- 60 watt basking bulb

Heat - 250 watt ceramic bulb with semi-circular fitting positioned outside the roof of the vivarium for safety (hooked up to a habistat "pulse proportional" thermostat

Humidity - Namiba Terra "Tropical Rain System" produces very fine spray from two nozzles (german, 100 euro, v.good)

Atmosphere - temperature ranges between 24 & 26 degrees C
- Humidity ranges between 45 and 80 percent (finding it hard to keep the humidity up all the time though)

 

[lisagr07]

pic dosen't show up for me....

 

[jannb]

Do you have a dripper? I would recommend using a dripper. Try feeding some big hornworms and silkworms if you can get them there. You might also want to give him a shower. Could you post a picture please?

 

[sandrachameleon]

Never hurts to increase water if there is any concern about dehydration or kidneys

Some orange is not super horrible, if the rest of the urate is truly white. This can happen if the animal doesnt deficate often.

I would add more feeder types to what you are offering. Rather than 100% crickets, try 25% crickets 25% locust, and the remaining 50% made up of 5 or 6 other bugs, including some soft bodied "watery" types like silkworms or hornworms as previously suggested.