harlo all gerbil owners newbie here, just got my 2 G's from sOuLx from adoption thread. Am keeping them in my ex-hamster's tank, so far they're getting used to it, scratching the walls a lot haha. Will have to get a bigger tank for them soon, mine's only 6 inches high, didn't know they need such a big tank.

Any comments on my little setup so far?

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Added on December 20, 2009, 2:21 amthis thread mati alrd ka?

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me as well. now in melaka selling quite cheap, 2 for rm 40. so is considerable.
but things that scare inbreed.
the owner thought i'm not a gerbils keeper, then put hand into tank, he straight away call me not to.
then got one tank got pups, but then inside there got 2 adults gerbils (i think is parents), then 2 teenager gerbs. so total up there got 8 gerbils, as there got 4 just born pups.
i plan to striaght away get all back, but then is from shop... scared to condition not good.


you have to use more bigger tank, and one thing about the height. have to be higher.
the tank lid of you will be chew off by your gerbils in no time.
get a standard 1.5ft or 2ft tank, it will be better.
plastic or glass tank is up for your decision.
by the way, how many gerbil you keep in the tank?

This post has been edited by zoejehuty: Jan 10 2010, 02:58 AM

i thinking to add new gerb to my tank. i ady got 3 yrs old gerb in the tank. what age gerb should i get to add in my tank?

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Added on January 14, 2010, 12:26 pmzoe ... the shop u mention is in dp?

This post has been edited by holyghost: Jan 14 2010, 12:26 PM

holyghost, where is your location ady ar?
ya, at dp there.

zoe ... me in melaka too ... n if u are in mmu campus, me very near u ... lol

anyway, i think i will go get 1 or 2 from that shop ... i kesian see my 2 boys play with each other only ...

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Added on January 15, 2010, 1:49 pmzoe ... u think 5 months old can bind nicely with my 2 yrs+ old not?

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Added on January 15, 2010, 11:11 pmdamn ... i failed to control myself n got all 3 gerbils from the shop. now i wonder how i should intro my 2 2yrs old boys to this new family ... can i intro both them to the new boys simultaneously?

of cos i mean putting both them in a split cage then into the new boys tank n let them get to know each other 1st ... or i should do 1 by 1?

This post has been edited by holyghost: Jan 15 2010, 11:11 PM

you in melaka? which area? i'm at mmu campus there.
to bond ar, it depends, some can success, some not.
cos last time i do bond with some of my gerbils, last time i use to have around 10 plus.
but then end up some fight, some not.
some in the start fight, then later good, some in vice versa.
and you need a lot a lot patient and time to make bonding...
you know the way of bonding right?

woah, you get 3 of them? which 3 you get?
any picture? which trait?
and i guess you get the one i want though. haha.

sometimes clan to clan works, coz the less dominant ones will get along well, and this helps alot throughout the introductory period.. the less dominant get well and make things easier for the dominant ones..

this may be just my luck..

ya, ture of what you said. less dominant one will get along easier.
the dominant one, they fight like hell....
and ya, you have to identify which one is the dominant one, for that particular one, the bonding or introduction period have to be longer and frequent.

holyghost, where you located, i free then go your house see lo. lolz.

kelvin, how's your gerbils? still keeping and breeding?

zoe ... i got all the 3 males since mine is all male. the shop ask me if i wan female ... i say 'no lah. i dun wan breeding' ... my house? paiseh lah .. as its a mess cos am doing some housekeeping ... haha

i think my older 2 males arent any close to be dominant type ... i ady put them in a split cage with the new boys .. so far didnt show any agression from both parties ... maybe tonight will try take them out n put together n see how.

holy : u swap every few hours, let's say, adult in small cage and juvenile outside, then SWAP to become adult outside and juvenile inside.. force them to smell each other smell..

from my experience, almost instantly u will have an idea whether the gerbils can or cannot be grouped together..

i have used SWAP methods on TANK and TANK (two 2feet tank) and CAGE in TANK (metal cage in tank).. both works fine for me.. the idea is that when u wana do these methods, u shud clean all the stuffs.. making no more smell of the adults.. so they wont be possessive towards their territory.. if u have cleaned all, i used to use germisep to disinfect and it does removes all smell at once, then they have no more territory to be protective and aggresive..

zoe : i letgo mine when i have to move out from ukm.. once, i got like 34 gerbils.. not to breeding, its colour collection and shades..

the most proud time for me was when i succesfully yield spotted black, spotted agouti, spotted nutmeg.. there are also some argente, dark eye honey (deh), red eyed honey (reh), lilac, dove.. so happy.. for bout 6 months i get to have them.. this was the result of going here n there to get colourful genes and ventures into breeding..

my first gerbils are agouti.. the male super tame, female super cute and she adopts babies from others like her own.. so surprise! i got them in december 2008..

1st attempt not successful. at 1st seems they all ok. after awhile my adult deh seem trying to be dominent but there's ady a bigger size young agouti. i put back my 2 adult boys into the cage n mayb let them be together that for another couple of days then try again ...

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

Zoe : I already left ukm for 7 months plus la.. Nearly a year i letgo my gerbils d lorh..

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Added on January 17, 2010, 4:15 amZoe : I already left ukm for 7 months plus la.. Nearly a year i letgo my gerbils d lorh..

This post has been edited by kelvin_faye: Jan 17 2010, 04:15 AM

zoe ... sad to hear your lost ... i lost my sp argente cream, sp nutmeg, sp agouti n a syrian hamster last year too ... all them were chubby chubby looks ... missed them ...

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.

zoe ... u got suggie too? how much is a joe nowdays? the pet shop selling rm200+

i think will give up trying to bond the adults n the young ones ... 2nd time i tried, the moment i put a young one with the adult, aggression occurs ...

i think will focus on my own bonding with the young ones now ... any idea how? they are ady arnd 5 - 6 months old

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.

zoe ... yup, i know bonding take time ... but i really dun wan see blood in the process ...

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.