faeces question.

[lynn22]

Not the best of subjects I know but when I was putting in fresh food to our 2 new baby tigers this morning I noticed one of them was in the process of doing his business so to speak & what was coming out looked like the bits of the ground up baby snail food I gave them for the first time yesterday which I had mixed with water to form a paste (mix contains ground up cuttlefish and crushed oyster shell + various cereals , seeds and limestone flour)
Now my question is would it be normal for the faeces to look like this or should it have been digested more ? It was formed & coming out like normal so I was just wanting to make sure he had got the goodness out of what he had eaten ?

[siobhanc54]

It's perfectly normal, when my snails have eaten lots of calcium it's white in colour, when they gave eaten lettuce or greens it's green, it does appear that it all just passes through but it's normal, though a good way of knowing what each snail has eaten even if a little disgusting

[Bumblebee]

Snail droppings look just like what color their food have, I have found everything from very dark green (almost so dark so it was black lol), to red and to orange, but mostly its some normal greenish color

[lynn22]

Thanks both of you, I suspected this was likely to be the case but reckoned I had better make sure.

I'm sure if I didnt dig them out they wouldnt even bother coming out to eat

[coyote]

I gave mine some pumpkin a couple of days ago, and there is bright orange poop all over the tank! ;D It's quite startling to see if you're not expecting it.