Lizard Poop/Substrate in Compost

Ethereal Earth

So I have a bearded dragon with sand substrate. I have searched on google with mixed results on if their poop and substrate can be composted? My beardie in particular has a pretty high ratio of fruits and veggies in her diet as well as crickets and gut loaded meal worms.

Anyone have any info on this or have composted beardie poop/refuse before?

AngelaOston

https://community.thegrownetwork.com/discussion/844669/lizard-poop-substrate-in-compost

I dont know about bearded dragons but i have tons of fat lizrds pooping allover my garden. And it works out well. If i have a doubt about something i feed to part of my worm compost system. They can process bones through them. So. They are my great transformational tool

Ethereal Earth

Thank you for the info @AngelaOston I put all the debris in my compost so I guess we shall see how it goes.

Hassena

I would imagine it's much like composting chicken manure. Since most lizards don't pee like chickens. It's probably a fairly hot compost. Then, you probably don't hav that much. Toss it in the compost or bury it in. The garden. It seems like it's be fine. :)

Ethereal Earth

@Hassena I have taken the whole refuse (substrate - desert sand type material with some cedar shavings, shed skin, food that ended up in the substrate, poop, cricket bodies) and dumped it into the compost for next year. Shall see how it turns out.

On another note, dragon poop is literally the most horrendous smelling poop I have ever sniffed in my life.

Hassena

@Ethereal Earth Oh my gosh it does stink terribly! I had one....wow she was stinky. Haha

If it's only a percentage of the compost I'm sure it's fine.

If I was only composting lizard waste, then I'd use worms to break it down.