BYK_Chainsaw Posted - Oct 20 2021 : 11:52:48 PM
ok, so after quarantine you do not introduce them. (there is a procedure write up somewhere on this site and others on other websites.) you start scent training to get the gliders used to each others smell. I swap pouches every 2 days. I also provide two pouches for each glider. I check to see if glider is sleeping in clean pouch or the one with the other gliders scent. Its a good sign if they choose to sleep in the scented pouch. I continue this for several weeks, if I notice the gliders always sleeping in the scented pouch then I move cages closer, but keep them 6 inches apart or more so they cant grab a tail. then finally my wife puts them in the tub. one cage is cleaned to remove most of the scents. if they behave in the tub without fighting we put them in the clean cage so they can mark it together. FIGHT is fast and ugly, think of two cats going crazy at each other, during tub time sometimes they have small spats till they work out who is who. we have a clean pouch and if they go into pouch together without fighting that is good. PS clean pouch goes in tub after some time of them not fight, and being ok with each other in tub. I don't know how much yours were grabbing at each other, but some of that is normal for me. I have 6 gliders in my colony and the alpha likes to sometimes bully others during treat time. he will even chase them around the floor some, but none are harmed. And usually they come back to me, friends again for another treat. but alpha gus is always ready to bully someone who tries to treat steal. anyway... If you see no injury on either glider, and the crabbing was not to strong. again mine have spats and squabbles, in pouch they can get grumpy and make noise. maybe a foot in face, or a hard groom. I would put your gliders back together and keep a close eye out. If they are crabbing strongly at each other and getting nasty, I would do scent training. last example, during dinner time, riggs has trouble getting corn out of bowl, so he will try to steal another gliders corn, this creates a few seconds of hard squabbles and nasty squeek and then over once the corn is saved or stolen. so I usually hand riggs a piece of corn so he gets his share. good luck. |