yellow poo!

[adipadi]

MY HERMANNS TORTOISE HAS DONE A YELLOW SLIGHTLY LIQUIDY POO! IS THIS REALLY BAD! IT HAS A LITTLE BIT OF RED BUT I THINK THAT MIGHT BE A BIT OF RED PEPPER WE FED HIM IT DOES LOOK LIKE IT CONTAINS UNDIGESTED FOOD! HELP PLEASE!

 

[egyptiandan]

Hi,
What have you been feeding your Hermanns?

Danny

 

[Crazy1]

Hi adipadi, first thing don't panic. Lets get some questions asked & answered. What have you been feeding your tort for the past few days. When was the last time he had a normal poo and what is a normal poo for this tort. Do you have more than one tort? If so did they all eat the same thing and only this one has yellow poo? Have you soaked him/her recently?

 

[adipadi]

Hi adipadi, first thing don't panic. Lets get some questions asked & answered. What have you been feeding your tort for the past few days. When was the last time he had a normal poo and what is a normal poo for this tort. Do you have more than one tort? If so did they all eat the same thing and only this one has yellow poo? Have you soaked him/her recently?

He eates mostly dandilions and chineese leaf lettuce with the occasional strawberry or grape. He last had noraml poo about two days ago it was brown firm and quite fibourousy. I only have one tort and i soak him about once every two or three days.

 

[Yvonne G]

Sounds to me like urates. Tortoises hold onto their urine because of the drought conditions they live under (in the wild). So when they finally do pass it, all it contains is the chemicals left over after the water has been absorbed back into the body. And these are called urates. You tortoise's urates are yellow because he's been eating dandelions. This is nothing to worry about. Every desert tortoise does it.

Yvonne