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I have a 6 ft. Iguana who I picked up about 4 months ago from someone who did not want to house him anymore. He is a very beautiful male but here lately I have been worried. He went a month before Christmas without pooping. he finally did on Christmas day, since Christmas day he just pooped yesterday 1/13/08, I feed him every other day, his diet consists of collard greens, mustard greens, occasional squash, and green and purple grapes. Is there somthing wrong with his health? Should I be concerned? Anyone that can give an educated answer to this would be greatly appreciated, this Iguana has become part of the family now and if anything were to happen to him he would be greatly missed, Thank you for you time on this issue!

I would offer food everyday. You may want to have a calcium
level checked. I took in a rescue 4 years ago who was in
terrible shape. She had several old healed fractures due to
MBD. I now have to supplement her daily with calcium and
she still only poops once every few days, it that.

Your diet sounds good but add lots of different veggies
cut up small to the salad. The other thing that is very
good for them are alfafa pellets. I mix them in the salad
and they soften up.

Hope this helps
Linda

Thank you, that should be a great help, nice looking female green, looks like you've done a great job with her!

no problem glad to help and thank you she is very much loved here iggirl1

Try giving him about a tbl spoon or so of mineral oil as a laxitive. Increase his temperature as he may not be digesting his food properly due to improper heating. Even if this means putting him in a smaller cage with plastic sheeting over it to hold in heat and humidity, for a short time. Get him healthy and get a vet check for parasites if he has lost any weight.

This link is the diet I used for all my igs.
Link

Ty very much for your response

hi a six foot ig should be fed every day lots of greens and vegs fruits only on occasional days and far as pooping did the former owner say he pooped in his cage cause my ig likes the bath to poop they like to poop in water.it helps her being that she had mbd when i got her now it only time she will go.check into some ig sites as far as diets and lighting and housing cause if everything is not right things happen like not pooping and eating if they dont get warm enough a good site is www.iguanaden.org has a lot of helpful info and that is the diet i follow with my ig hope this helps iggirl1

Thank you for your response, I always keep a big water pan in there for him, and usually does only poop in his water, I put him in the bath about once a week and I just found out today I need to put calcium with his diet, I was told by a zoo owner to be very sparingly with the calcium because it can cause lumps on their bodys and cause problems, ty for the web site info, I will def check that out, I am still learning alot about these guys, I picked him up from an unwanted home and could'nt say no to him, btw u have a beautiful male!

thats awesome that you got him potty trained already wish I knew how, add more watery foods like okra to his diet and if its severe give him only iceberg lettuce till he scatts. Hes holding all that food somewhere and I promise thats not a good thing. all iceberg for a few days will get ALOT out of his system. Oranges will also help too due to ALOT of water in the fruit. but only for a few days till he gets that all out of him.