Bright orange poop

[alane]

Today I come home to check my FBT tank. Everyone's happy. But I see something i've never seen before.

It looks like it's a frog poop. However, it's the wrong color. It's bright orange.

Huh?!?

I have attached a photo. The bright orange spots you see are what happens when Repashy Calcium Plus vitamin powder gets wet.



All other poops seen in this environment have been totally normal.

What on earth?!?

[privet01]

Interesting, what color is it when it goes in? I never seen or used repashy. However I don't think it's abnormal for the color to change based on what's eaten.

When I feed my crickets a lot of spinach, their poop is a bright emerald green. And let's not talk about grape koolaid when I was a kid and drank a lot of that........... <<grin>>

[alane]

Well, i've always dusted with this kind of vitamin powder. It is white. But if you get it wet, in a few hours, some bits of it turn orange.

Typically, their poo is light beige, maybe a darker shade. Never seen one colored like this.

Dusted crickets are their sole diet. Once I get a source of feeder earth worms, i'll feed them that as well (worms are more fun anyway)

Sometimes I feed crickets when the cricket is "not long for this world". I wonder if a sick cricket could cause a funny colored poop.

I guess i'll have to keep an eye out for any unusual behavior, but all six of my FBTs seem to be okay.

[privet01]

Certainly it should be an indication to pay a little closer attention, but probably just like outlier data, it's not an issue.

I think you've already been involved in some posts that mention it, but just to be sure, many suggest not to feed them "red wrigglers". They say that that type of earthworm excretes a very bad tasting slime that might cause your FBT's to shun all types of earthworms.

[alane]

I did some searching and found this about Red Wrigglers versus Nightcrawlers:

http://www.gartersnake.info/articles...htcrawlers.php

I did more searching and found a fellow that grows worms in my local area:

http://www.thewormdude.com/products-page/

[privet01]

If you have a place to make a small compost pile, there are already plenty of worms in your own yard. Just need to give them a reason to have a population explosion.

There are both red wigglers and night crawlers in mine. They are easy to distinguish from each other.

[Heatheranne]

We use the Repashy calcium plus 2 days a week, Mondays and Fridays. We dust with Repcal calcium with vitamin D3 Tuesday's, Thursday's, and Saturday's. Wednesday's and Sunday's are non-dusting days.


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[Froggie85]

I dust with repashy calcium plus lightly every feeding. My frogs dont eat a ton so I usually dont have a lot of poo... Now I understand what those little orange dots are from. The supplement I didnt know that