yes my ball is poop is black an not white...is this okay??? my other balls poop are always white!!!!!!!!!!!
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poop???
lilroc338
Mar 15, 2011 07:24 PM
Replies (4)
Matt97
Mar 15, 2011 08:02 PM
It wouls help to get some better grammat in that sentence i couldnt understand it but if your snake poos entirely white that aint good.
I think
Bolitochrome
Mar 15, 2011 08:58 PM
Neither of you are grade A English students, but this is a pretty laid-back forum, so its not a big deal.
Anyways, normal Python feces ranges from white to tan to brown and black. Sometimes with a bit of fur in it.
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Lincoln, NE
0.1 Pastel, 1.0 Pastel het Pied, 0.1 Pied, 0.1 Cinn, 1.0 Black Pewter, 1.0 Woma (hidden gene?), 0.1 Yellowbelly
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JYohe
Mar 16, 2011 05:15 PM
I've never seen a white pile of feces.....tan is usually a bad thing also....
dark brown to "black " is normal...
white is urates....uric acids....pee to be more precise....
......ain't....
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........JY
ohernz
Mar 16, 2011 05:31 AM
Ball pythons feces are composed of two parts. First is the fecal pellet, or mass, usually a soft dark brown to black lump. Snakes use more of the food they eat than we do, so most of the time you won't find anything in it, although sometimes there will be fur or small bones.
The other part of the waste is the urates; this is the kidneys waste (the urine). There is a liquid and a solid component of the urates. The liquid part is generally clear and somewhat viscous; some days it may be more abundant and watery than others. The solid part of the urates is a white chalky mass that sometimes can be seen in the liquid urates, while other times in may be deposited along with the fecal mass. Urates are excreted in a hard lump because snakes have a system where they re-absorb much more water from their wastes than we do.
Sometimes the urates can have a green color. This (in a healthy snake) is usually caused by a mix of bile salts in the urates. This sort of thing shows up when a snake hasn't eaten for a month or so, and the intestines are empty.
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