Urates

[Brad]

What exactly are urates and how can I prevent them? I know you're not supposed to massage them out of your snake but I did. She seems fine but I was surprised how big they were. They were the size of a large dogs feces but they were all white.

[jason h]

urates are a natural waste item in all snakes there is no way to prevent them. and if there solid white theat a good thing.

[Linds]

Ditto what Jason said. Urates are just excretions of uric acid, you don't want to prevent them. Bloods are kind of freaky with their urates, they build up for quite a while I've noticed, and you can feel them clearly and even hear them scraping around sometimes :eek: It was a little alarming the first time I experienced this but soon came to learn this was perfectly normal :) Just let nature take its course ;)

[ReptiZone]

urate is urine snakes cant proses it like us so it comes out solide dont worry about it

[Linds]

Originally posted by chondro python
urate is urine snakes cant proses it like us so it comes out solide dont worry about it

Snakes do also pass a certain amount of liquid urine as well, some species more than others.

[sSNAKESs.com]

Indeed, its always a real blessing when you walk into the room and see a steamed up cage, then open it to find your snake laying in a quarter inch of urine... LOL thank god someone invented the litter dam! :p

[Linds]

LOL :p

[Simon R. Sansom]

Question for everyone regarding actual liquid waste produced by Blood Pythons...
Do you guys find that your Bloods seem to produce a lot of liquid urine in comoparison to other snakes?
Mine definitely do.

And, regarding the solid urates, I have a pic of a very large accretion which I removed manually from my female. There was no way that she could have passed it unaided. I'll try to post the pic one of these days.

Simon

[jason h]

yes i find my bloods do pass way more liquid than many of my other snakes