reserved!~... just joking... so many reserves lar!

congrats!!!!!!!! new version!

my sugar glider has not been eating... she's only about 3 months old... im very sad because she has not been eating much for many many days. perhaps 4 days?

also, she has one 'hiss' sound, a very brief moment one, when she pees.

yesterday i fed her papaya but she only took a little, and totally ignored the apples.

what should i do???

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Added on August 4, 2009, 8:32 amand in dont want her to suffer...

This post has been edited by malowie: Aug 4 2009, 08:32 AM

whens the next gathering? i really want to go. lol

well, usually i give my glider one tablespoon of staple mix such as Hun's GliderSLURP!, one spoon of fruits and one spoon of veggies. she finishes most of it left a little the next morning.but if u give apples or the same thing everyday she will ignore.

you can feed bak choy. mine loves it. and its high in calcium

i just bought some cranberry apple juice for my glider... hopefully she does not hiss anymore when she pees..

hey i tried cranberry apple juice and my glider hisses no more when she pees!

yup cranberry apple juice is excellent..

if he hisses when he poos, normally it's diarrhoea. dont feed grapes and anything unfamiliar to ur glider.

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Added on August 6, 2009, 9:13 amnope, in the wild there are virtually no white tips. cuz white tips lack the camouflage defense. they are more easily recognised by predators as the unusual white part of the tail does not blend with the environment. white tips exist because of mutation of DNA base sequence due to UV light exposure etc.
so, those normal colored gliders are at advantage.

two normal colored parents may give birth to a white tip because the parents carry the white tip gene in them, but are not expressed in the parents because it is recessive, and grey/black is dominant in the parents. the joey is a white tip and exhibits white tip because it has two or more alleles coding for white tip, and does not have the allele coding for grey/black at the end of tail.

so, if ur normal colored glider gives birth to a white tip, youre lucky!

so, those normal colored gliders are at advantage.

i cant wait to get my hands on a white tip though! or perhaps a leucestic glider.

This post has been edited by malowie: Aug 6 2009, 09:17 AM

wow. 1 inch of white tip is already a lot. usually the price of the white tip depends on how much white coloration there is on the tail..

its like that everywhere now lar... people just wanna make a quick buck

yup... cuz if hamsters escape from captivity they will live in the wild and disrupt the existing cycle of ecosystem...

but imagine if gliders escaped and went into our forests... and survive. then we can see wild gliders in malaysia lol...

yes. lets say in malaysia, gliders are not native. so when they are released into the wild in large numbers they may compete with our local species i.e flying squirrels, slow lorises etc. for food... this may happen cuz our weather mimics indonesia's, and gliders can possibly adapt well to our environment.

for example, in australia, in the 1800's, only two dozens of rabbits were released into the wild. now, there are bliions of them, and they are a major pest to crops and even wild plants of australia.

take a look at this website to learn more

http://www.invasiveanimals.com/

thats the reason why australia strictly disallows the import of pets and also the export of pets. the cockatoos, rosellas, etc. you see in the malaysian market are descendants of the cockatoos imported out of australia before the australian government banned the export of wildlife.

even australians are not allowed to keep sugar gliders. did you know?

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Added on August 8, 2009, 1:40 pmvery well said. who can properly take care and bond with 20 gliders and more a week???

This post has been edited by malowie: Aug 8 2009, 01:43 PM

i saw that too... color dyed rabbits! poor rabbits.

may be its a small cage where all joeys cram in like how toby's pet in ikano does it la... i feel so sorry for them.

and yes i remember at one point those colored chicks were hot cakes! so many ppl bought them..

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Added on August 8, 2009, 7:02 pmdont give in to her demands when she bites you. if you show that you are scared when she hisses/crabs loudly at you and bite you, she knows it works on you. so she will continue biting cuz she knows by that way it will get you not to hold her.

i suggest u bring her in the pouch into the tent, then using hun's method slowly bring her out as if pushing out tooth paste from it's container.

This post has been edited by malowie: Aug 8 2009, 07:02 PM

no probs.

well you can't really find pure cranberry juice but i buy the paple cranberry juice from (peel fresh) if im not mistaken. but i know the tagline is any fresher, you'll have to peel it yourself la.... lol

yes, gliders can be fed frozen cranberries but it's better if u freeze the cranberries in an airtight container.

is there a reason it crabs specifically at night? my glider crabs only when irritated. at night, she barks.

yes can makan mealworm... try to break the mealworm and squirt it's contents on your finger, and let it lick the contents. see how it goes.

ppl go church =) haha

the glider in the pic there does not have a bushy tail.. underaged!

i dont think you can really tell that a glider is underage that way lar.. i think she best way is to see the tail. how's the tail of your glider like? if it's bushy means its 2 months if its not then it's less

ask your friend to get a bonding pouch and put nothing else but the bonding pouch in the cage. then in the morning, zip the bonding pouch and ask your friend to bring it every he goes in the morning. that way the glider will get used to his scent, sounds, sights etc.

also he can put his unwashed shirt over the cage covering it so that the glider can get used to the scent of it.

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Added on August 9, 2009, 8:02 pmyups... they love to groom.. sometimes my glider does it so hard it hurts! haha...

but well, it shows that your glider sees you as a companion who is trustable, that's why it does that...

if it does not draw blood on your neck then it should be okay... =)

This post has been edited by malowie: Aug 9 2009, 08:02 PM

they have a website. www.chubbypetsgarden.com

of course they would survive, but they certainly wont get the complete nutrients they need.

actually a lot of my friends were shocked too when they knew that a glider can live for 10-15 years in captivity.... they thought the life expectancy was a mere 3 years!

anyway, i was wondering who has the oldest glider here....