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Undigested Food?

SkyeYvonne

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This is the first time I've ever seen this with Thor, but she just pooed and it was basically just solid mealworms that weren't digested at all. Usually when she goes to the bathroom everything looks fine, but today it was just a solid chunk of mealworms and I'm concerned as to why that is? They were dusted with calcium and there were also a few super worms, some buffalo, and greens mixed in with her dinner today and last night but none of that was undigested...just the mealworms. Any help would be great!
 

Josh

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How often do you feed mealworms? Maybe they were from a previous meal? Were they whole? The shell of a mealworm can be hard to digest. Do you think she's got an upset stomach? Any abnormal behavior?
 

SkyeYvonne

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@Josh The mealworms are available to her at all times. That way in case she gets hungry before or after dinner, she can go snack on those until it's time for me to feed her. They weren't completely whole. It was like the bottom halves of them had been digested and the other half wasn't. No abnormal behavior though unless coming out of her hide more often and basking is abnormal. I'm gonna go pick up a new heat bulb today to raise the temperature a little bit. It jumps between 95 and 100, but since she went through a little hibernating phase I left it alone. But now that she's coming out of the hide and staying out I'm going to work on raising it today. I was looking into it online and read that that might be the issue, so I'm gonna get that changed today.
 

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