White poop

[mr. Binks]

My tortoise has being pooping white poop when I soak him. It's mostly brown poop but there's some white.

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[Jabuticaba]

The picture is fuzzy, but that could be the urates. It's normal and usually passed right after or with urine.


May[CHERRY BLOSSOM], Hermann's [TURTLE][TURTLE] & Aussie [DOG FACE][DOG FACE][DOG FACE] (@YWG)

 

[mr. Binks]

Yay! He's ok

 

[noahthedodgerfan]

My Russian occasionally does that too, but it is just a way of getting rid of extra protein. (Nothing to be worried about)
[THUMBS UP SIGN][TURTLE][TURTLE][TURTLE][TURTLE][TURTLE][TURTLE][TURTLE][THUMBS UP SIGN]

 

[biochemnerd808]

Those look to be normal urates. Tortoises and some other reptiles and all birds excrete urates. These are the end-product of their protein metabolism. These aren't really 'extra proteins' as much as all the stuff that is left over after processing protein.

Just to be a biochem nerd... urates are made up of carbohydrates with oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen on it. Probably more than you wanted to know...

 

[noahthedodgerfan]

This is just a normal way of getting rid of excess protein. Nothing to worry about

 

[Tom]

Pease read this. It's on the opening page of the forum.

http://tortoiseforum.org/thread-14782.html