If your intention is to breed, you should limit your set up to 1
male-1female pairs only. When the females breeding cycles get out of sync
and one has pups while the other doesn't, the gerbil without pups is
likely to kill the other mother's pups. Gerbil colonies should have only
one breeding female, as females are the dominant sex of the species.
Jill
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> From: cj.morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: trying again
> Date: Monday, January 15, 2001 2:02 PM
>
> hi
> I presume that my last email didn't reach you as there as been no
response!
>
> I'll send it again later....
>
> any way I'm new to the list after having my interest in gerbils fired up
> again after 20 years by the sight of a pair of 'burmese?' gerbils....I
keep
> them both along with an ivory cream female in a 36"x15"x12" all glass
> aquarium (second hand leaker with a mirrored back...never mind eh!) with
a
> 'vivarium' lid. they have a 'parakeet' nesting box lying on its side with
> the lid removed and the open end up to the glass so that I can see in
(this
> is kept dark by using the original plywood lid fastened to the outside of
> the tank
> with 'Duck Tape' for a door) attached to this is a piece of 2" tubing
> (from the plumbers) about 12" long this is squeezed into a hole I made in
> one of the corners of the bottom of the 'nesting box'. the tank was then
> furnished with some aquarium bogwood (sold as 'curio' wood) and this sort
of
> fills the rest of the tank (ish) on top of this I placed an ordinary
bucket
> full of moss peat and two litres of chinchilla 'dusting powder'
(sepiolite)
> I slightly mixed it together as I put it in. I have also placed two
empty
> coffee jars into the corners. there is a water bottle fixed to the
inside
> of the tank at the same end as the nesting box and a small ceramic bowl
for
> their food is placed on top of the nesting box. they seem to love it in
> this environment as they change the 'landscape' every day with new
tunnels
> popping up and old ones being destroyed in the process. I've found that
> putting the jars in the corners stops blanche from doing that 'constantly
> digging in the corner' behaviour, preventing her from ruining bobs
fantastic
> tunnelling work (he'd be an interior designer if he was human).
> the mix of peat and sepiolite seems to keep the tunnels up for as long as
> they allow them too.
>
> they have been named by various members of the household as:
> blanche = ivory cream female
> bob = (the builder, for totally obvious reasons) burmese? male
> shy = a slate/burmese? looking female(at least I believe her to be
female)
>
> questions:
> is this set-up ok?
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