pale poop after having calcium powder.

[jmulley6]

my tegu gave me a scare the other week he had a rather pale poop. Due to 7 years working in medicine I immateriality freaked thinking it could be insufficient bile output due to conditions such as cholecystitis, gallstones, giardia parasitic infection, chronic pancreatitis,hepatitis, or even cirrhosis..
I manages to calm myself down because there were no other symptoms and wait a day ..poop was back to normal in a day.
the only thing that changed in her diet was I gave her chicken trimmings with calcium and multi vit powder on it,
usually she eats chicken necks or whole pray so I do not frequently supplement that amount anyways.
so the other day I tested the theory and yet again pale poop!
I am assuming that it is just her body dumping all the unneeded supplements.. I was just wondering if anyone else has experienced this as well with there Gu?

 

[kellen.watkins]

I heard feeding mineral and calcuim together they cancel each other out or don't react well together so I have always avoided it.

 

[tora]

Yeah usually the vitamins have calcium in it already, so you can really overdo it by using both at the same time.

 

[Piercedcub32]

Jmulley6, what type of Ca++ are you using? Perhaps its one of the less soluble types, made of the oyster shells, and therefore its simply passing unchanged in the BMs. just my thought ;o)

 

[laurarfl]

The difference in solubility of various calcium sources is a matter of 10% or less. I have seen pale tegu poo before. I was feeding ground turkey and mixed quite a bit of calcium with it. Since they stay in the garage, they are subject to ambient temperatures and sometimes it flucuates if it is a raining day, etc. In this case it had been a bit cool. I've also noticed a difference if there is a high fat content.

 

[jmulley6]

it is ZooMed repiti calcium without d3 which is a precipitated calcium carbonate. the mulit vit was Zoomed Reptivite also contains calcium carbonate, so together probably too much Ca.. (swwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa) < oops Tegu on keybored!!
there was no change to ambient temp but the chicken scraps did had a bit of fat stuck to them. so it was probably just the combination of things.