Question: Wellness check, where’s the poops?!

[Nkalda95]

Hey guys,

We’ve had our little axi Robert for about a year now. (And yes we beilieve he’s a female.) he has been showing no signs of stress or sickness, eats regularly, but I haven’t been able to find any signs that he’s been pooping. I’m worried he’s constipated but I want to be sure before I resort to a fridge treatment, I don’t want to risk hurting him if it’s unnecessary. Do the dark spots on his belly seem normal, or does it look like back up? He eats a diet of Live earthworms and ghost shrimp, and has never shown a loss of appetite. He stays fairly active and like I said, shows no obvious signs of any problems. Now that I’m worried, everything he does is starting to appear as a sign of possible problems so could you guys take a look at this pictures posted and tell me what you think? Thank you!

 

[Biev]

She looks healthy to me. As long as she’s eating a normal amount, I wouldn’t worry about not seeing poop. Sometimes they eat their own poop. Mine do!

(edit) Looks like Robert is a Roberta ; ) Maybe a Bobbie?

 

[Nkalda95]

Yes, we were planning on getting her a tankmate before we knew how to tell the gender, luckily the woman at the pet store cautioned us about making sure so we don’t endup with a bunch of babies. But since we’ve had him (her) for a year now we can’t seem to stop calling her a him so we’re staying with the name Robert ? Very modern household haha. Thanks for the feedback though! Finally saw a nice big poop a few days ago.

 

[JM29]

Hello,

Excuse me to answer so late but I'd like to share an observation :
In spring and automn, the diet of my axies is mainly earthworms.
Earthworms seem to be very well assimilated, so that the poops are rare and mainly made of a bit of clean earth (the worm's gut) wich doesn't last a long time.

I then usually see few or no poop in these conditions and I never worry about it.

Conversely, in summer, when earthworms tend to be difficult to find, I need to use pellets or others foods and then I see more often poops (and more algae also).