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Fishy SMELL!
Posted: 02/11/2009 by herbzie

today our 3 yr old spur thighed started passing lots and lots of white fishy poo/wee!

It smells very bad

Please help

Re: Fishy SMELL!
Posted: 02/11/2009 by tpgAli

Hi,

This sounds completely natural as the white stuff is normal in a tortoises urates. As long as they are white and a creamy texture then all should be ok but make sure you give your tortoise regular baths as they need to replace the fluids they lose.

Ali

 

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