I have tired everything when it comes to nail trimming!! I've trimmed,and used a emery board. My older guy is ok with me trimming his nails. The baby is all over!! I have tried all diff times of day. So i caved in and got the sand paper for the wheel( My vet was against the sand paper on the wheel). I put it in last night and don't really see a difference. Is it ok to leave in again? I just don't want to hurt them. I also want to know everyones take on the woodent wheel with sand paper.

Wodent wheels are just plain dangerous for gliders.

The sand paper in them makes them very smelly - it holds the pee and poo so the glider is running on the waste.

sand paper in any glider wheel does not eliminate the need to cut the nails now and then, it only takes off the very sharp tip of the nails.

Wodent wheels are very dangerous, gliders have DIED because of those, not to mention many cases of injury. The Stealth Wheel has trim trax and i've heard it's very good. I will be getting one as soon as I can afford it. It'll run you about $60 for everything but it should help a lot. Some vets will also cut their nails for you.

Trimming the nails is not particularly fun, but it's a necessity of owning gliders unless you have a vet that does it cheeap. Ours costs about $80 per glider, so we cut them ourselves. I think it's more stressful on us than the girls, worrying about are we pulling their little legs too hard, are we going to break a little limb. But they are pretty good about it. They don't really like it and bite hard and squirm.
The thing to do is hold them in a piece of fleece (one with their smell on it) and cover the head. I can't stress that enough because they (at least ours will) bite any opportunity they can.

It also helps to watch a few videos on youtube about nail trimming. Lucky Glider Rescue has a good one. Make sure you don't watch any from ASGV because they are paid by Pocket Pets and therefore are full of misinformation.

Someone on Artjoy.com also has a nail trimming kit complete with trimmers and a little mesh thing to hold them in. Some people swear by that.