Just curious.... What does it mean when a snake passes nothing but urates? Has "gone" accept for that in about 2 weeks. He gets small meals so maybe he just digests it all?
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1.0 Ball Python "Wilson" (Castaway)
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches"
0.0.1 Mexican Black Kingsnake "Onyx"
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Constipation?
phiber_optikx
Mar 07, 2006 10:51 PM
Replies (2)
jasonw
Mar 08, 2006 12:18 AM
Hmmm this is a hard one ummmmmm or a funny one. I am sure Snake go #1 as well as #2 just like we do. This may very well be a good topic for my work though. The question....... Do snakes go #1? LOL
I would be interested to hear any diferent.
My Research and Collection
qroberts
Mar 08, 2006 06:46 AM
Snakes make wastes which could be associated with #1 (kidney filtrates) and #2 (solid wastes) but they pass both through the cloaca like a bird after extracting most of the water.
Urates are the products of internal housekeeping and protein catabolism (the vermin is a nice little packet of protein).
The less waste that comes out, the more energy your snake is extracting from the foods it's eating. If the snake was constipated, nothing would come out at all.
When my corn moves up in food size for the first time the excrement is usually larger and has more than urates in it. However, when she begins to become too large for the food she is eating, her waste switches over to being almost entirely urates.
