gritty urates

I am familiar with urates, but this does not look like a normal urate. It is hard and brittle. This is the first time she has excreted something like this. History of My Tortoise: Species: Indian Star Tortoise Weight: 1kg. I got her 20 days ago. Within two days, I noticed she had pinworms...

My adult Russian Edward is still occasionally passing gritty urates, about once a week. I am at a loss what I could be doing. Edward had a bladder stone issue this summer: https://tortoiseforum.org/threads/gritty-urates-or-cuttle-bone-being-passed-or-what.215927/ TLDR: I got Edward from a...

Hi! I’m a first time tortoise mom to a 2-month old sulcata and for 3 weeks now it has passed gritty urates! I don’t understand why, I’ve been soaking it every single day, sprayed water on its food. I feed it romaine lettuce to just get hydration. His/her diet is a high fiber pellet, previously...