What you can do is buy a bottle of mite spray for birds and use it on gerbils. That's the safest. You sure jumping? Fleas are brown and got long back legs and looks like a bean shape.... ticks are like tear drop shape and also brown coloured and much bigger to see.

I think it is the bedding. Sun it. That's the bedding mites, kinda common in wood shavings. It is quite harmless, it only eats up rotten food... lives in soil so if you put the bedding near an entrance that is near grass or outdoors or even flower pot with soil, then the mites may have traveled from there.
Just go petshop buy lah. None of us make coconut homes for our gerbils unless you got a tool that can drill a nice round hole.

I heard that gerbils can get flu from humans, so try to wash hands before touching them

it bleed seriously or just blood stain?

Once awhile for sure some slight bloodstains can be found on the nose.... all woodshavings are dusty and softwood sure produce some phenols.... but of course what we are using is much better than some other brands outside.... I use before Pestige wood shavings. Prestige line of small animal food is good quality but their wood shavings sucks, really dusty till your eyes tear and you sneeze non-stop.

The best way is to air out the bedding. Before you put the gerbils in their new bedding, just toss and turn the bedding outdoors till minimal dust forms....

Bedding allergies can be looked out... signs and symptoms are watery eyes that can barely open, very wet nose and paws, pinkish stains on the nose and paws and even blood stains. Lethargic and small appetite.

Hahaha... hard to handle meh? You need to handle them more lah. Let them get used to your fingers and hands.

any type of small gerbil to intro? wanted to start rear gerbil but dunno which type i shud rear,can anyone intro to me.. possible the small size gerbil even it mature..

went to pet family last week,all the gerbils they selling r big size, juz abit smaller than guinea pig...

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.

hey ppl! am new to the gerbil thread. plan to adopt 2 male gerbils from crazymouse. have been pm-ing her but maybe i can get faster replies if i post here.

is delikate bedding okay for gerbils?

and how to i make holes in my plastic tank for the water bottle, if i dont have any drilling thingy?

i went to pets family in klang and i dont think they have sand bath. can i get everything that gerbils need in pet safari, ikano?

thanks a bunch!!

If the home is made of non-plastics? Oh ya, can i give it sand bath? About the toys, can put hamster's wheel?