holyghost > if you wan faster, try like kelvin said, do it in few ours. it would be help a lot if like that.
since yours might be fighting, so i guess that you need more and more time in hte introdution period lo.

kelvin > when you gonna let go yours? when finish ukm? you plan to let go all 30+ gerbils? i cant take them all though, maybe about 10+ near 20. depends 1st.

my 1st pair is sp agouti and nutmeg, get it from hun back 4 or 5 years back. i got them like teenage like that, damn tame...
they both are call yuki for sp agouti and kioko for nutmeg, and they are the queens...
kioko quite dominent, so everytime when i intro new gerbs to them, she always fight them, ended up i just leave both of them in one tank.
but too bad now cos just left yuki as kioko pass away like half a year back i guess.
so now left yuki alone in the tank.

This post has been edited by zoejehuty: Jan 17 2010, 04:07 AM

haih, thought you havent left yet.... sienz lo...
then you now concentrate on suggies only is it?
i also have one suggie.

i lost it last year, is my 1st i own.
the rest i lost is within last 4 years la, got about 10 of them. but then those i bought it from LCP, mostly inbreeding.
the shop near maybank melaka raya one. you know that shop one la, those animal all unhealthy one,
i just bought them out of pity and make them have better home.

pet shop sell for 250, but then all under-age joey, mine is adopt one.

bonding take some times, not just once or twice one, you need to do it frequently one.

hmm... then i guess that you just keep it separately lo...

btw, i plan to adopt from hoo98, i plan to adopt all of it. cos i love so much gerbils.

last time wan to adopt one, but then that person is at penang, too far already.

haha... will too, after i get all of them la, but then have to go kl and take it...

This post has been edited by zoejehuty: Jan 21 2010, 05:07 AM

holyghost, ask you, what colour gene of the 3 that day you bought from dp there?
i saw one white fox if i not mistaken, then others is lilac, agenta cream and agouti.

no other people than me active here already is it?

for that, i'm not really sure about it since i'm in malacca.

for adoption, you just miss out... the last time i know that put up adoption one is around last month.

sorry for so long didn't reply. been busy around.
i thought there got some one that reply you.

for my information, if i not mistaken, pinewood is not good for gerbils.
ya, it will cause some health problem.

by the way, if you wan to make some ladder, try use steel or anything that not chewable.
cause if you put the wood or plastic, within few days the thing will gone.

yup, i like to do that also...
hey, kelvin, what you mostly do now? from signature there looks like u doing pet business?

icic. good one.

check out the 1st pages for more info...

by the way, glad to know that there still got people keeping gerbils.
ok, here's the thing, how long the pups just pop out?
if you plan to nursing your own, 1st thing, is a hard job.
you have to monitor it most of the time.
get those tube thingin or 'penyedut', i forgot what it call.
then get milk power from pet shop.
here is the time you hand feeding those pups.
cannot be too much, or too little, you have to do based on the pups situation.

i didnt face this kind of problem, so i not sure about it.
if you plan to keep it, separate the pups and mom, since the mom is eating them.
then from here hand feeding. even if die, you cant do much things, at least you did try it.
if you let with the mom, 1-maybe the rest stay alive, 2-all die being eaten.

but sometimes i did heard that the mom eating those pups is a mere action to regain the calsium or what so ever things in the mom body.

this is my knowledge about this case, maybe corret, maybe not.
i hope it some how can help out.
but id wnat know more, chekc out the 1st page link.

looks like the gerbils thread is alive back already...
cool...
who's keeping gerbils again?

where's your gerbils? all died ady?

ya, zazi one is up for adoption. i'm gonna take from him as well...
looks like there still got people keeping gerbils...
good to hear that...

yeah, i going to get 2 from him though...

hmm... glad to hear that there still have people that keep gerbils.

is there anyone still keeping gerbils?
post up some picture then... share share...

pity, RIP.

2ft tank will be ok for a pair of gerbils, normal 2ft, for good, you can put up to 4. too crowded not good.
for the sand, try not to use it too much, you can put some same in a pot then leave it in the tank, gerbils will auto go and clean their self in the pot/container.
on the other hand, although gerbils pee not smelly, once if use sand it will stick on the sand, like cat pee in sand, sort of.
if you use sand as a based, means no bedding, normally gerbils will dig, more often will hid inside the hole, only night come out.
and if want to pet or play with them, will be very hard, and will scare the gerbils get frighten of you.
so prefer you put bedding (not pine bedding) then put some toys and hay inside.
you can check some picture on the 1st page there, around like that.
what shop tell you, please not follow exactly, some info is useful, some is nonsense.


sorry zazi, i forgot to contact you back once i free. totally sorry.
i will take the 2 of them.
but then i thought last time you left 1 tank only, how come now still got the other tank?


about the inbreeding, definitely NO NO NO...
for scorpion, tarantula and some exotic animal (i forgot what term already, intervebrata, i think, or spell wrong), is ok for inbreed, cos due to genetic something, you can find it in google.
but then not for mammals. there will have genetic problems. just like human. surely NO INBREED, as what has mention in the 1st page.
that's why you can see nowadays those hamsters, guinea pig, gerbils, they don't live long, shortly died already.
if want get from the shop, make sure no family, at least separate family, to reduce the inbreed chance.
cos last time i bought few from shop, end up not long only, some of belly tumor, some nose bleeding, fur lost, tail bleeding.
all these not happen due to not clean, fighting or what, is due to inbreed.
i remember the belly tumor one, the one i got is colour Lilac, just bought not reach 2 months, died already.
so be careful on it. get separate family, or you get on from 1 shop, the other one from other shop. keep the inbreeding to minimum or if can zero.
since you going to get a male and female (if and only if you plan to breed it), if not please just get 2 male or 2 female.
cause once breed, will have a lot of work, you have to keep in different tank for male and female or avoid inbreed and so on so forth.