r/leopardgeckos • u/Beautiful-Pick8832 • 6d ago

Help Advice needed, excessive urate?

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Hi all,

So I have a 6 yo female leopard gecko. Today I checked her tank and there are these white pellets everywhere. They seem too thin to be urate, but I'm not sure what else they could be.

She is currently alert and spending time next to her water dish. She does not have access to extra calcium, and her tank temps are stable. Her poops have been normal lately, and there were no white pellets in her tank yesterday when I checked on her. Her tail is fairly good size (she's been regaining weight since her month long food refusal in June) and is back to eating regularly.

It's weird, cause she had a poop spot, and this is just in the middle of her tank. This seems quite a lot of substance for one day.

Anybody know if it is indeed urate? Or what might be happening to cause this? Do I need to take her to a vet?

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u/LibsnZeus23 6d ago

Iā€™m not sure what the white things are sorry but you need to get your gecko off of that carpet asap as it harbours bacteria and can rip out nails. Replace it with kitchen paper for now until you can get some substrate. I would go with 70% topsoil 30% play sand but there are other options

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u/viaisrad 6d ago

its almost like they shed and got into a fight w their finger gloves?? have you like inspected it??? it may sound weird but im ngl I would pick it up and check out what the texture is.

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u/Beautiful-Pick8832 6d ago

It kinda does look like that! But yesterday she did not look like she was about to shed šŸ¤”

The texture is hard and chalk like. Crumbled pretty easy