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After my male guinea pig got diagnosed with a bladder stone and miraculously passed it by himself, I have made a great change to my guinea pigs diet. I have reduced their pellets to 1 tablespoon each and increased their (filtered) water intake massively through veg and their water anyway to ensure that they are urinating more often and no crystals of calcium can settle and develop into bladder stones again. Since doing this, my guinea pigs poo has gone very soft and almost tear shaped. Is this just them getting used to that new diet where they are having a massively increased volume of water? Will this settle eventually or is there anything that I can do help the poo return to its normal shape consistency? I don’t want to have to change their diet again ideally
 
A sudden increase in water will cause this. You don’t want to suddenly overdo watery veg. Giving lots of watery veg can stop them from drinking from their bottle. They will only ever drink as much as they need.

You need only feed one cup of veg per day.
 
Yes, i reduced their veggies about 2 weeks ago to help with smelly poo, then the bladder stone incident has happened and we were told by the vets to douse their veg with water to encourage water intake. Surely it doesn’t matter where the water comes from, the veg or the bottle. I rinse my veg with filtered water .

Will it calm down over time or do i need to reduce and build it up slowly?
 
Dousing water on their veg will not suddenly increase the amount is water they intake by much - I certainly don’t think it is enough to cause soft poops.

Suddenly increasing the amount is watery veg you feed (ie suddenly giving more cucumber or lettuce for example) will cause soft poops but you are saying you cut their veg intake down so these two things don’t match.
 
I have started giving cucumber on the daily aswell because they enjoy it and it has high water context
 
So, the normal advice to deal with a mild gut disturbance and soft poops is to stop giving veg and to allow their gut to resettle on just hay for a few days. Once poops normalise then reintroduce veg slowly.
 
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