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He is indeed pooping alright now. He had his follow up visit with our herp vet a couple days ago where we found out that he's calcium deficient and along with his pin worms probably contributed to the prolapse. He's on a steady diet of Phoenix worms, crickets, and a little bit of baby food with...

We've been able to get him to eat 5 to 6 ml twice a day. At this point he gets excited and opens his mouth for the baby food. I express ordered some phoenix worms that should be here today, so hopefully we can get him back into some live food in a couple days.

For dogs and cats you can get well visit care as well. For my cat its 16 a month, and having multiple policies gets 10% off.

After my recent battle with emergency vet bills for my beardie's prolapse I remembered that the company I work for offered pet insurance for cats and dogs through VPI (http://www.petinsurance.com/plans-and-coverage/bird-and-exotic-pet-insurance.aspx). I looked into it and found that they offer...

How much of the baby food should I give him each day? I have vegetable chicken, of which i gave him about a teaspoon and a half.

I've got ReptiSun 10.0 and a ceramic heat emitter on the way along with Acidophiliz+. I got rough temp reading using a round thermometer and hes about 5 - 10 degrees lower than he should be. Thanks much for the advice.

Oh, and it turns out his prolapse may have been from a combination of eating the substrate in his cage (which has been removed and replaced with paper towels) and he has pinworms (which are being treated with Panacur).

My 9 month old male beardie had a prolapse 3 days ago that was replaced by his vet. Now though, he is having a hard time going poo, and when he does its urates with cricket matter. No traditional poo. I'm wondering what I should feed him or do for him to get his poo cycle going normally again...