hi!

i'm a newbie in both lowyat forum and also in suggies

my friends got me a suggie (named him Blackjack) last month for my birthday and i've been doing research on suggies care since then. but still i can't seem to find the answers to my questions, so i thought i might as well ask here because i've been following this thread as well and a lot of you seem to know so much about suggies. hopefully you people are able to guide me !

1. i know it's normal for suggies to sleep all day (especially young ones. Blackjack is 3 months now) but i'm always worried that he might be starving since he doesn't eat whole day but just sleep. so i tend to wake him up once or twice to feed him, but he always goes back to sleep after taking some bites. is it ok if he just sleeps through the day without drinking and eating anything?

2. Blackjack isn't exactly afraid of me anymore because he no longer crabs at me, but i still think he's not exactly bonded with me yet. he allows me to hold him, stroke him and all, but when i put him on my body, he likes to jump and run away. is this normal? because i know that some suggies are very bonded to their owners where they just stick to their owners only. but mine.... makes me feel so upset each time he runs away from me. i've been trying hard to bond with him ie: bring him out with me in the bonding pouch most of the time, gently stroke him when he's sleeping and leaves my hand inside his pouch so that he can get my scent and even talking to him.

3. also my friends (both of them have few suggies) told me that since Blackjack is still young, his digestive system isn't that good yet. so i was told to feed him with HPW in the morning and some fruits in the noon, and ensure milk at night. i've been doing this routine for a month now and i'm not sure if it's sufficient for him because i just recently learned about the ratio of calcium:phosphorous (which i'm still confused at!) . should i continue my routine of HPW, fruits+vege, milk at night? i see most of the suggies owners feed a proper meal to their suggies (vege+HPW+fruits) everyday but Blackjack doesn't eat a lot most of the time he just nibbles a lil and leave the rest. it worries me a lot because i'm so afraid of him getting hungry

4. last question! i've been thinking all day long (few days!) if i should get another suggie for Blackjack. i know suggies are colonial animals and they are better off being in pairs or groups. but i wanted to get another on at a later time because Blackjack is not so bonded with me yet (afraid if i get him a gf, he will palau me even more ) and besides, i want to further educate myself first before getting another one. then again, i really want Blackjack to be introduced to another suggie at a young age rather when he's adult. such a huge dilemma what you guys think?

okay that's all for now. so so so so so sorry for being so long-winded, but i'm really clueless, not knowing what to do and i really need to hear from the experts. thanks in advance !

thanks a lot sheilameow! that's a very detailed answer there

well, i feed him Ensure milk as i was told that that's the only suitable brand milk for suggies. oh and Blackjack was only 2 months old when my friend told me to feed him milk. i didn't know when to stop feeding milk, that's why i still fed him milk until last night. but tonight i didn't give him milk anymore. i prepared HPW and vege+fruits for him, although he's still sleeping and not willing to come out to eat

may i ask where can i get Gliderade and Glider Booster? can i get them from petshop? and i'm not sure which pet shops have the supplies for suggies stuffs because even Petsmore don't have everything for suggies :/

and the stone problem, is that when they just sit still there without moving? because Blackjack used to do that quite often last time! like really just sit there without moving (even when eating halfway!) . i didn't know why was he behaving like that but i guess i know now! but now he does that a lot less frequently will the stoning problem cause further disease or anything? O.o

i tried looking for pure cranberry juice in jaya jusco but they don't have is there any specific brands? because i know those packed juices are not that good for our human health, so i'm not sure if they're good for suggies :/ maybe some specific brands are better?

HAHA sorry but i don't have a sister

thanks a lot for the link! will online buy the 4 supplements now! hopefully they will deliver it to me asap

btw, if i make the puree, is it sufficient if i just feed the puree with the supplements as guided? because they're not exactly solid food isn't it?

btw, is it true that suggies will turn yellowish if they sleep in coconut house? mine doesn't exactly sleeps there, but just goes in there for a while every night. he still prefers sleeping in pouch

i want to share some pictures as well!


my Blackjack, a present from my friends for my birthday



no, he wasn't crabbing. he was just munching and i snapped the picture as though he's crabing


this is Bella, got her last week





DIY a 'bungalow' for them





toys

This post has been edited by quineechow: Mar 29 2012, 02:51 PM

thanks ^^
was worried i might have exaggerated a little on their cage but thought the bigger space the better for them hehe

hahaha yup in my house. the cage is even taller than me, so i need to use a chair to reach the top ^^" hmm so far it's quite clean to my surprise

i just got mealworms yesterday (VERY GELI ) for my babies but i'd like to ask, are there actually any ways to jaga/feed the mealworm before feeding them to my babies? and also, how often and how many should i feed? 2-5 per glider on weekly basis ?

hehe, my suggies are the same too! the second i introduced my suggies , they already slept together in the same pouch the next minute quite glad to say that i do not have to separate them because they do not fight at all and now they're living together peacefully and happily. hehehe.

hi, i'd like to ask how old do you think these babies are?







do you think they are two months old?

my friend bought them from a pet shop (forgotten where) and they told him they're 2 months+ old but they're really tiny (compared to when i got mine at 2 months). initially another one that looked like the first picture died so my friend went back to the petshop and they replaced a new one for them.

what got me even more furious is that the sales person told my friend that he just needs to feed the gliders with the dry food ONLY and it's sufficient already!

hi, i'd like to ask how old do you think these babies are?







do you think they are two months old?

my friend bought them from a pet shop (forgotten where) and they told him they're 2 months+ old but they're really tiny (compared to when i got mine at 2 months). initially another one that looked like the first picture died so my friend went back to the petshop and they replaced a new one for them.

what got me even more furious is that the sales person told my friend that he just needs to feed the gliders with the dry food ONLY and it's sufficient already!

just saw the chart. looks merely one month old to me... and the first one is malnourished

very! hopefully can survive

the replacement one is the second picture. although still looks very small (less than 2 months old) but at least it doesn't look malnourished. the first one though, small and malnourished

my friend lives in Cheras (nearby leisure mall) and he just told me he bought it from a petshop near his house. weird because i live in Cheras also but didn't notice any petshop selling sugar gliders. should be easy to locate then since there aren't many petshops that sell gliders. hmmm... shall try locating for the place after my finals!

hi! does anyone know where i can get this cage?




preferably the white one on the left. yes, it's the image i got from the first page post, sorry yah cos i couldnt find any better pictures

or a cage like this link below

http://www.sugarglider.com/glidergossip/to...?TOPIC_ID=20822

my DIY cage recently got lubang lubang everywhere and my Blackjack kept escaping. even after my bf and i fixed the cage last night and we couldn't find anymore holes, we put them back in the cage (we bought a small cage for travel purpose also so for the past few days we kept them there). and guess what! Blackjack escaped this morning again but thank goodness i found him back easily this time.

and i was so paranoid last night that i couldn't sleep and kept going to check on them, but they're still in the cage even at 3something in the morning so i was convinced there isn't anymore holes. who knew that sneaky Blackjack managed to escape again; from where and how i really have no idea

so now my bf and i decided to just buy a cage otherwise i'm gonna be so paranoid about it every night T___T

and because my DIY cage is quite big (can fit TWO of me inside! and it's taller than me -__- ) , i feel heavy-hearted to 'downgrade' them into a smaller home so i'm trying to find the biggest possible i could get

my Blackjack's penis has been out for a couple of days now.. heard it's normal when it's their mating season for the penis to be out all the time.. but what i don't think is normal is that ... one end is in normal pinkish red in colour whereas another end seems to be darker in colour.... like dark red or almost black..

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