Posted by:
Carlton
at Tue Jan 30 14:16:13 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Carlton ]
The orange urates is just one of several signs of dehydration. To really know, you need to look at others too, including skin tenting, collapsed casque, heavy drooling when the cham is actively drinking. What is the air humidity in your cage? It could be that the cage is drying out faster between spraying than you realize and the cham is losing ground over time. If the cage gets too dry between sprayings the cham will tend to dehydrate just from respiration. They lose a lot of moisture through their respiratory tract, and being humid climate critters are not very efficient at conserving moisture like dry climate herps would be. You can get hygrometers that will record the high and low relative humidity level during the day...it may surprise you how dry the cage is getting.
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