melissalissatodd
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Hello! I've read up on some of the old threads on uric acid, causes, ideas, diet, hydration, etc. but still have questions.
I have noticed the passed two times my tortoise has passed uric acid, it has been slightly gritty. I would say she passes this once a week. I have been researching some of the foods high in oxalates, which does coincide with the food I've given her the past two weeks. She is fairly small, so a bunch of kale and dandelion greens lasts a week or two (interspersed with Zoomed grassland tort food, orchard hay cut up real small, dried flowers, and dried mulberry leaves, etc).
She is soaked every morning for 30 minutes, lives in a closed chamber, has temps ranging from 80 - 100 degrees F throughout her enclosure, with orchid bark for substrate, humidity between 85 - 98%.
Is this normal? to have small gritty deposits in her waste?
Thank you.
I have noticed the passed two times my tortoise has passed uric acid, it has been slightly gritty. I would say she passes this once a week. I have been researching some of the foods high in oxalates, which does coincide with the food I've given her the past two weeks. She is fairly small, so a bunch of kale and dandelion greens lasts a week or two (interspersed with Zoomed grassland tort food, orchard hay cut up real small, dried flowers, and dried mulberry leaves, etc).
She is soaked every morning for 30 minutes, lives in a closed chamber, has temps ranging from 80 - 100 degrees F throughout her enclosure, with orchid bark for substrate, humidity between 85 - 98%.
Is this normal? to have small gritty deposits in her waste?
Thank you.