Urgent questions!!

[Abrahamdelacy]

what color are the urates?

Forgive my ignorance but what are urates? lol

 

[camimom]

Forgive my ignorance but what are urates? lol

the pee part of the defecation process.

you have the poop, which is brown, and that whitish part.

if its yellow or orange, cham is dehydrated.

white means hydrated.

also, some chams like to suck in their eyes when they sleep.

 

[kinyonga]

Like I said before...If she's laying every 120 to 130 days it's normal.
Sometimes there eyes are a little less protruding during their sleeping.

 

[Abrahamdelacy]

Oh! Okay. I thought it might have something to do with that, but I wasn't familiar with the term. It is white from what I have seen. I just cleaned the cage today and didn't notice anything out of the normal. I will pay extra close attention over these next few days and see what it is looking like. Thanks for the tip! The only method I knew of to tell if a cham was dehydrated was the sunken in eyes. And that actually explains a lot. Her eyes are usually sunken in when she sleeps.

 

[camimom]

If its only while sleeping, then shes probably fine.


they also like to suck them in when angry, when they are scared, they see you. etc.