I know it's pretty common for us to get paranoid about our animals. I try not to do it but when something 'repeats' itself, I can't help but wonder. What better place to find out if it's 'common' or if my paranoid is justified.
This is in reference to '10 1.0 Spider I picked up from CL a little over a month ago. He has been doing just fine with one exception. At the beginning of the month he had a number of urates/defecates back to back over the course of 5-7 days. I actually went through an entire roll of paper towels that week because every time I would change them, he would mess them up.
The first usually looked normal with solid white along with some 'fluid' or a 'normal' poo ( more urates than poo's ). Then some would be mostly liquid with little to no solid ( urates ). That stopped after about a week ( Nov 30-Dec 6 ). It may have lasted a little longer, as I think I stopped recording it after it kept happening. I chalked it up to it being visible because I was using paper towels. I have always kept my animals on cypress or repti-bark.
Then he was fed twice before another 'incident'. He, along with everyone else, was changed to aspen as cypress ( which is what everyone else was being kept one while he was on paper towels ) was keeping the humidity in all my tubs too high.
A couple days ago I started noticed a urate. Then on the 19th I found a 'good sized' poo in his tub. I of course cleaned it up and recorded it. Then earlier today, I found another 'good sized' poo in his tub. I cleaned it up, and fed him. I was just in checking on everyone and noticed he had now urated again ( mostly liquid, little to no solid ).
Is this normal? Have I just not noticed all this stuff due to my other animals being on cypress? Now that everyone is on aspen, I'm not noticing anything 'extra' in their tubs other than the usual every so often.
Tell me I'm being paranoid and he just doesn't 'hold' anything back..haha
He also likes to urate and defecate on the accurite.. He has destroyed one, and is working hard on the second one. I'm going to have to screw it off the bottom of the tub to the side so he can't urate all over it..lol
All Husbandry is correct. Humidity is staying high, but I can't keep it down if he keeps urating every time I turn around.
Edit: I just noticed I tend to write long winded posts. My apologies, I just like to give as much as information as possible. I could probably be a little less descriptive but oh well..haha
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