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Bambi doesn't have the bumps, but Whitie, my other female has just pass a yellowish urate with a bit of crystal (I checked the urate its white inside, just covered with a layer of crystal outside; no faeces though). Here is a pic of her belly:

Here is the side view:

She is eating very well, putting on weight every week, she's now at 83g.

What could be a possible cause for kidney disease? would improper husbandry, too much vitamin, high temperature be a cause?

nothing wrong with her and she looks like ovalting and it is one of way to tell if they are ready to breed. If it has pink and it will be likely to be egg and if no male still can lay but will be unfertile
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Those large white bumps are too far forward to be her kibneys. They do look more like developing eggs. Do you see that black/blue "Y" on her belly? the kidneys are sort of at the ends of that, if since she's healthy, I wouldn't expect to see them. I am not a vet, but she looks good to me. Are you using sand as a substrate? that might be the grains they are passing. If not, look at the calcium powder you are using. your girls may be getting too much phosphorus. I like to use a 2:1 or close to it. Are they drinking as much as they should? or too much? I sometimes have ones that can't find/figure out how to use the water bowl, esp. if you moved it. kidney disease is congenital. that means a gecko is born with it, and most don't make it to the size of yours. It is possible that it's a mild case, and the vet would be testing blood for excess phosphorus, which is a symptom of the disease. Frankly, I think your girls look pretty good, but keep a close eye on it, and get the blood tests to be sure.
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1.0 Pastel/Jungle Leopard gecko from JL (BJ)
0.4 Normal/Hi-Yellow Leopard gecko (Beatrice, Goldie, Freckles, Pepper)
0.1 SHCT Leopard Gecko (Brite)
0.1 TBD Leopard Gecko (Rainbow)
0.0.1 Tang Nearly Paternless (Peaches)
0.0.2 Corn Snakes (One snow, One red albino)

Thanks for the replies. I guess I'm getting too nervous at everything after I had a blizzard died mysteiously in May. He had parasites, but the last lot of stool he passed had maggots in it. Couldn't take the stool to the vet coz its too waterery; but I took close up pictures and showed it to him. He was pretty sure that those were maggots and can't be from the inside of Ding (my blizzard); but we think that Ding did passed the maggots, because we checked on him just 10 minutes before, and the stool wasn't there...it remained a mystery.

We feel so bad that we didn't even notice that he was sick until the day before he died. Here is a pic of him, he died the next day:

If they loks like maggot it is usally from Infection of baterica or has havy infection of hookworms.
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