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Should I be worried? Urate looks orange/pink-ish.(Picture inside)

Striving Spark

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I'm hoping this is just due to dehydration - still trying to get her to drink properly, seeing as how the humidity's low - but... I'm a bit worried. Any thoughts? (I've seen a bit of orange before, but this looks more pink to me?)

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Striving Spark

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Uh. Potentially more worrying? She just pooped out a BFSL, and not only is it still whole I think it was still alive.... This was her second poop of the day, so I'm assuming she may have pooped it out a bit too fast? Which might be related to the fact that this was her first time out of the enclosure and she seemed a little excited... Or it could be the other way around?

I saw her running around the tank, often near the front, and interpreted it as her wanting some time out. So I took her out for the very first time, and let her run around on the bed. (Just the bed, for now, until I get my room spotless so I don't have to worry about her eating some bit of stale crumb or whatever.)

Then she pooped out a worm. I didn't even notice at first - not until I decided she'd had enough out-of-enclosure time and decided to put her back in, then went to clean up after her. (At least I think it was still living? It didn't really move much in the interim, so maybe not? IDK)
 

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Uh. Potentially more worrying? She just pooped out a BFSL, and not only is it still whole I think it was still alive.... This was her second poop of the day, so I'm assuming she may have pooped it out a bit too fast? Which might be related to the fact that this was her first time out of the enclosure and she seemed a little excited... Or it could be the other way around?

I saw her running around the tank, often near the front, and interpreted it as her wanting some time out. So I took her out for the very first time, and let her run around on the bed. (Just the bed, for now, until I get my room spotless so I don't have to worry about her eating some bit of stale crumb or whatever.)

Then she pooped out a worm. I didn't even notice at first - not until I decided she'd had enough out-of-enclosure time and decided to put her back in, then went to clean up after her. (At least I think it was still living? It didn't really move much in the interim, so maybe not? IDK)
If she is gobbling the bsfl too fast they will.come out whole - make sure she's having appropriate time to start digestion and temps are 105-110 - the orange could be food like carrots even the squash - or supplements as well
 

Striving Spark

Hatchling Dragon
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If she is gobbling the bsfl too fast they will.come out whole - make sure she's having appropriate time to start digestion and temps are 105-110 - the orange could be food like carrots even the squash - or supplements as well

I definitely hit the required temps for at least part of the day - even go over them on her basking rock, at times (which is probably why she decided to go to the back of the tank, where it's a bit cooler, today.) ...I might actually have to lower the set temperatures on the thermostats, seeing as how I'm hitting 130 degrees on the basking spot even if the thermostat insists the tank as a whole hasn't even hit 100. (I use an infrared heat gun to test the surface temps in the enclosure, and those are often higher than the ambient air it seems.)

Beyond that, she gets fed in the afternoon and lights don't go out until 8. Usually the insects come around 3 at the latest, so that's about 5 hours to digest. (The exact feeding time depends on when she wakes up, in part - she slept in, today. Or at least chose not to come out of her hide for a good while. Was about 1 when she came up, and I tempted her with veggies first before moving onto insects an hour or so later.)
 

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