Even male will also hump the other male to show dominance. I always see my Sp Nutmeg humps the others.
But do check it properly.

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Added on January 22, 2008, 12:47 pmYea... If you want to take nice pictures, you have to take them out. You can let them play on top of the tank which i normally do. As long you're there supervising them, no problem unless yours are as notty as my boys who dare to jump from top of the tank.

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Hahaha... Very normal they cover the food bowl & sand bath bowl. That's why I don't give food bowl to them & sand bath is in another smaller tank. I always put their food on the bedding. Just dump in like that.
Oh..Ya..They dare to jump from the lid even table. After since then, I put them on floor to run around in the living hall coz not much things in my living hall & I can see them clearly. But normally my boys won't run out of my sight. They will run around the hall then run to me then away go explore and back to me again.

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Take them out often to play. Last time i used to put them on my chair to play around. Then I was there petting them or squeezing them. Lolz... But normally once you play with them often, they will know is you & wouldn't afraid of you. If you observe them clearly, actually each of them has their own personality. Who likes to be handled, who doesn't like. Who can stay longer on your palm or will nip you to ask you let it go. Like my Teh Boy, he lets us handle the longest & when he feels want to go, he'll use his teeth to rub our hand & ask to go. & like Bungee, even though he can't stop moving when holding him, but once you pet him shiok shiok, he'll sleep on your palm.

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Hahahaha..Normal for them to poo. Last time i got tons of poo when i let them out to play. End up i had to clean after they were back in tank. Handle them more often is the way to tame them. But actually not say to tame them, actually is let them to get familiar with you.

Really don't know how to teach you to differentiate. But somehow you'll know if you really pay attention on them such as their marking or pattern of fur or anything on them. This is how I differentiate them.

And another sad news. My Nescafe(Sp Nutmeg) was found dead in sleep again. I already really out of idea what the cause of their death.

May Nescafe RIP. Hope the others will not be like them.

There are a lot rare colors in Malaysia. Like Siamese,Burmese and so on which we cannot get it in here. Anyway, didn't hope to get the 2 colors I mentioned. But I do hope to get Grey Agouti here. Muahahahahha...

Here's the pics:


Quoted from:The Gerbils Color Palette

Hahahaha.. I do hope someone in here manage to breed this color out.

Yea... Grey Agouti Go Go Go!!!!!

Handle them more often. The more you handle the more they get use to you. The tamest boy I have is Teh Boy. Cox my boyfriend everyday handles him without fail, he can lie steadily on his palm. He will let my boyfriend know when he wants to go down.
Hi darkthalia, cool setup for your boys. Sure they are happy with the new home.
By the way, welcome to the gerbils family.

Really less people know about gerbils. To them, they look like rats.

Muahahahaha.... They are lil' DEH.

Actually you can touch them already. As the age to separate them from mummy if not mistaken is around 6 - 8 weeks. This let Foo answer you would be better.

This fella -->> aka, even think of breeding Teh Boy to get lil' DEH.

Nowadays I scare to see my boys sleep with no movement especially my sakais

Once they are use to you, they will only go explore around new environment when you let them out for run. Normally they will run to you & go explore again & run to you, repeating this till they are satisfied.

They know how to jump so chances of getting hurt is low. My sumos tank dare to jump from table. So no point putting them on table.

Yup. The rack's paint might be toxic to gerbils. I suspect both my boys that died at young age were due to chewing the rack & got poisoned. After I removed the rack from the tank, my remain boys gain back their weight & look healthy at the moment. So people with the rack please do check on your gerbils.

Lilac is darker than dove. But you can differentiate them easily by their color. Lilac is more to silver brown and dove is more to silver gray.

hahahaha...kelvin... Your name your gerbils from D&G....??

Anyway, welcome to the family. It has been inactive for quite sometime. Nezu would have happy to find a person who is interested in their genetics. Try to research and ask nezu or crazymouse if you have question on the genetics. They sure willing to answer you. Try to pump your gerbils with more vitamin. They look a bit slim.

Foo.... Happy lor you ^^

This post has been edited by babymoli: Apr 30 2008, 04:16 PM