I think lona is getting tired of the bml diet. shes perfectly healthy she seen her vet on friday so i know her health isnt the reason to why shes not eating much. but shes eating the bml diet less and less each night. what can i do to make her wanna eat more of it? i put 3 teaspoons full of the diet in her bowl a slice of apple and 1 grape.

Is she a single or does she have a cage mate?

She just lost her cage mate, so she may be feeling sad.

Are you feeding her the mixed frozen veggies too, as the original diet calls for? She should be getting 1 TBSP. BML mix, 1 TBSP. frozen mixed veggies, and 1 TBSP. of fruit per night. If you're not doing that, you need to revise your feeding, because her calcium to phosphorus ratio in her diet will be way off.

Is this exactly the way you're feeding her?
http://www.angelfire.com/nb/sugarglider/leadbeat.html

they wasnt cage mates.they were always in different cages and were never introduced to each other.

Oh, sorry. I was thinking that they were. My apologies, and my condolences once again.

but im gettin her one for x-mas. the day i pick it up im gonna take it to the vet for its first appt. have her in her own cage for 30 days within that 30 days do introductions.... take her to the vet again on the 30th day and keep doing intros. than put them together. ill more than likely get another female. so i wont have to do the whole neuter thing right now. i dont want to put one thru it

mollysmom lol. its ok. i think shes prolly tired of the bml. but it also could be i have been off wrk for a few days. got friday n sat n sun off so i been givin her food around 8. wen usually she dont get it till midnight or 1am when i get home from wrk. so its eary compared to the time she usually eats

Every month to six weeks, I give my gliders a few days' break from BML, and feed them a balanced 50/25/25 diet. They seem to enjoy that, and when I go back to BML, they eat it all up again.

mollysmom how do u do the 50/25/25

It's 2 TBSP of lean protein (eggs, chicken, turkey, lean beef, yogurt, etc.), 1 TBSP. veggies, and 1 TBSP. fruits. You just want to make sure you have a 2:1 calcium to phosphorus ratio over all in each day's meal, or as close to it as humanly possible. One way to check is to use the "resources" tab up at the top of the page. Click on "nutrition". There's a nice database of all kinds of foods...you can search for a particular food. If you click on the links, you can find the nutritional value of each food. You use the calculator on the page to divide the amount of calcium by the amount of phosphorus, and that should give you an idea of the ratio. Basically, you want the over all meal to have twice as much calcium in it as it does phosphorus.

I honestly used to do this all the time, but I just don't have the time to do it every night any more. I was starting to worry that by beginning to guess, I might be putting my suggies' health in jeopardy. So, this is a good compromise for my suggie family! :-)

ok thank you