latest picture..my agouti girl..

kembara.. long time i dont see your gerbils..
almost one month.. miss them.. huhu..

u miss ur argente cream rite hehehe

so so la..

aik, perli nampak?! hehehe..

hmm..won't gv to pet shop since they sell to snake feeder... all of my fancy mice given from my friends cos his snake seems dun wan to eat mice anymore,so i juz keep them..

well,i'm not from local, juz study here... i hv to bring those mice back when holidays and is troublesome for me to bring back more than 1 tank haha...

haha, welcome back kembara, u really like MIA a long long time already wor... by the way, nice agouti gal there

The way of petting a gerbils same as hamster?

for me same way..

erm, the petting u mean is like how? hold the gerbs or diet or any other thing... try to read on the 1st page then u will know more
if there any question then jus pop up here la, we all here willing to help out one...

Ah..... I tell you why.... coz it happened to before to me too. It is when the bedding becomes damp. It can be from a leaking water bottle, it makes the bedding wet.... then the pee and poo also become wet, and small flies are attracted to the smell, coz it smells of rotten wood.

You do not need to be so worried about it. The maggots will not harm your gerbils and they are from the fruit fly species, not those big dirty flies.... so you just wash the tank normally, it would be alright. No need to buy anti-bacteria spray... those contain aerosol, which can actually harm your gerbils' breathing.

yeah no different.

Main difference is gerbils are better at climbing, chewing, destroying anything chewable. They pee less than hamsters but dig more.

My gerbils

as a beginner which one do u guys suggest me to start with,
hamster or gerbil? gerbils look kind of cute..
which one easier to take care..
how about the cost of taking care of them?coz i was thinkg of getting the glider at first but then its better to start with something easier..

Can anybody answer my quiestion,...? Is Gerbil bite? Becoz I plan to rear Gerbil but I"m scared that they will bite, becoz before this I rear a hamster and they always bite even I wash my hand first to make sure that dont have food smell.

They don't bite but they do nip if your hand smells funny (shampoo, soap or food).

Make sure to rub your hands with their bedding to get their own smell

At least it works for me.....


Oh yeah.... one more question, what happens if my gerbils are picky of food?

They tend to finish all the kuaci and left all other food untouched

Or do i just leave all the food until they finished it all?

This post has been edited by yuying1: Dec 10 2007, 10:08 PM

i like your pied black gerbil..
lovely..
i like both of them..
easy to take care..
generally, gerbils do not bite..
only in certain situation.. as yuying said..
for me, i just give them three scops of food for them in one time..
and i feed them twice a day.. one in morning, and another in the night..
although they are picky of food (of course they attend to eat kuaci first), but before i give another meal in the night all of food in their bowl were finished..

just give them an enough-enough food to eat.. tak la membezir..

hehehe...my gerbs are picky with their food...hard 2 get them 2 finish the food...i see they hardly eat...but when i put new supplys they will get attracted 2 the smell...and my gerbs like prestige better than harry's..dunno why...hehehe...

kuaci will be the first!!!

Well it depends la. After all syrian hamsters are solitary, so keeping 1 is easier than maintaining a gerbil clan. Then hamsters do not chew and destroy the water bottles as much as gerbils. Cost is about the same unless you go and buy those expensive cage for hamsters, then gerbil is cheaper because they just need a plastic tank. However cleaning wise gerbil is easier because they dont pee so much as hamsters and stink less.

i guess everyone's gerbs are picky of food. but wat i do is if they don finish the food, i wont put in new one. starve them a while then they will finish one

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Added on December 11, 2007, 10:16 amthey will surely bite u when u just begin to rear them. but after they get used, then nothing ad

This post has been edited by xenon koh: Dec 11 2007, 10:16 AM