Albino is rare coz of the recessive gene. 2 gliders must be an albino carrier(het albino) in order for the joeys to be albino. This is why expensive..... it is very rare. If the price is cheap, everyone would want an albino. Price expensive, people would think twice loh then only those with money can get.

Most of the sugar gliders that we have originates from Indonesia.... cheap and also they got a very wide pet trade market that don't have much rules or laws lah. If US.... I find it rare for breeders to export. Gliders are protected in Australia and the country never exports their native animals now.

Aiya.. long time din cut my babies nails now kena scratched pulak.. itchy

They all kacau from outside the pouch, tau takut kena bite... Poke-poke, shake-shake the pouch...

Then they keep on making jokes like, lets BBQ Iggy, cook him lah, eat with sauce lah, mebbe steamboat style lah, this sauce better, that sauce better, eiiiii

I know joking, but if you hear them personally, so irritating plus all the poking and shaking...


KP

i try ur trick tactic with mealworm to attract their attention then cut the nails... but it seems not work. because chiwek n oshine only need arround 20 secs to finish 1 mealworm. My skills still low laa i think but practice make perfect will try again later

So fast geh.. mine slowly enjoy the worm. When cut the toenails that time ah, must 2 hands also hold worm, one on each hand then only can

i know how you feel. one of my sister did the same thing ..

fuiyoo . so fast .. is there any way to trim their nails ? beside giving mealworms ? while they are sleeping or sumthing

My tactics is just grab his hands out and cut quickly......hahahahhaa.....no mercy...muahahaha....

I do it when he's sleeping

Now he's ok with me holding his hands or feet when he's sleeping. But gotta cover his face a bit, cuz if he opens his eyes and see the shiny nail clipper, he'll know whats going on


KP

ya ya....same also...quickly tarik balik kau kau....

Eh hun hun ar.. I think need to make new thread liao lor..

Hahaha.... so fast... I didn't notice...

Oh yea, one more thing about the albino sgs.

Is anyone aware that when sugar gliders first appeared in the pet market, they were going for RM1 - 2k plus?

This is an estimation to how the price for sgs are today.
Since nobody could afford it at that time, supply exceeded demand and the price for sgs dropped considerably. When it dropped to a certain, more affordable price, SGs started to become popular so the demand for it rose.

But how are you going to get profit from an animal that can only breed twice a year? Easy, you just get lots of adult pairs and set up a sg factory.

This is how suppliers are able to meet the demand.

Now the price for sgs is set from 200 to 500 as the most expensive because if you sell too high, there will always be a market spoiler that will sell cheaper than you and everyone will end up buying from him instead of you. Ppl see it as the same product, just at a cheaper cost, without considering the difference between what you feed them, how you treat them etc.

This will probably happen to other colours of sgs if anyone decides to bring it in. A good example to refer to is hedgehogs.

This is why I encourage to buy from hobbyist breeders, not suppliers. Hey, the fact is, you pay for what you get.

This post has been edited by Reanne: Mar 28 2007, 04:43 PM

Agree, well said Reanne.

A lot of ppl dun know the difference of the quality, how it is bred so and so forth, all they know that somewhere, someplace sure can get a "cheaper" version. And they always end up going for that.


KP

Closed... move to the new thread people.