Sure! That's a great idea.
Make sure you up his calcium intake as well (go with a phosphorus free, no D3 supplement, at every feeding for a while, then you can step it back to every other feeding if you want [I dust at every feeding]. If you want to use one with D3 to make sure they are metabolizing the calcium properly, only dust with that once or twice a week.) , and maybe the humidity in the tank (by 5% or so, if you can). From what I was reading, low calcium can cause muscle weakness which contributes to the chance of prolapse, dehydration can increase the risk for both impaction and prolapse because the feces will be harder and more difficult to pass, and then there is also the worry of prey that is too large (even though you bought bigger crickets, I'd point to one of the other factors first, IME).
I'm glad that he soaked and it helped him. I was worried that I hadn't seen this in time and the tissue may have started dying off. If it happens again, soak him in sugar water immediately.
I'll go ahead and get that title changed, as well as make it a sticky. This is apparently more common than most of us realize, and I want to make sure that people are aware of it. After you are done researching, would you be ok with writing up an article on it for me? If you could write about your experience and your research so that it can benefit others in the future, that would be wonderful.
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