At 09:44 PM 8/2/00 -0400, ANDREA SPIEGLE wrote:
>I saw on somebody's website that chinchilla dust shouldn't be left in
>with your gerbils all the time, only for short periods of supervised
>time. Is this true? If it is, why?
That is a matter of opinion. Some people don't like to leave it in because
1) the gerbils may use it for a bathroom and 2) it's rather expensive, and
if you don't leave it in you can reuse it. Personally, I don't mind if
they use it for a bathroom, it keeps the rest of their home cleaner! I use
mostly sand with a thin layer of chinchilla dust on top. They roll in it,
which pretty much takes care of the chinchilla dust, then most of them use
it for a bathroom. I dump the sand out and give them fresh sand when they
seem to need it, usually every 2-3 days. Using mostly sand keeps the cost
down, too. I get a 50 lb bag of play sand for $2-3!
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