I have a joey, Tinker. about a month ago I bought him and his brother, Yoda, as a pair. When i 1st got them, they were a little scared but warmed up to my bf and I. They were both starting to get really friendly, coming to the cage door when it was opened, never crabbed. Then one morning I opened the door and Tinker (the smaller one) started crabbing like crazy, it scared me because they hadnt done it since we got them. Ever since then, everytime i go in the room he's sleeping in his pouch and the second you open the cage, or the pouch he goes nuts!!! Crabs like he's getting murdered or something, and he only does it if he's covered. If he's already out he wont crab, if we manage to get him out and put him in a pocket, hes fine til we try and take him out of the pocket, then he'll crab. But if hes out of any sort of dark place, and in the open he's normal, not as friendly as Yoda, nor is he as comfortable with us... it just seems like he's so spooked out, and he never used to be like this, atfirst i thought; okay, give it time, new place, new people.. he'll get over it. But its been a month now, and no progress, if anything its getting worst. He bites hard enough to draw blood if you try to take him out of the cage. Only way i get him out is by taking the entire pouch out, and exposing him til he hops out onto something, then i grab him.
any suggestions???? I'm so frustrated! I'm to the point that ive even thought about selling him. I love his brother, little sweetie, so cuddly, we call him licky cuz he licks our hands like crazy.. blows my mind how theyre so different.
ANY ideas, suggestions would help

This isn't what you want to hear, but it sounds normal to me! They are so different with different personalities. Yes, it sounds like he's pouch protective. Just sounds like he's going to need extra time and patience. My two original girls (sisters) were this EXACT same way. One loved me/us immediately. The other hated me/us for MONTHS. My husband called her the devil...she'd draw blood from him. He wanted to give her back. There was NO WAY I was going to let that happen. I wasn't going to separate her from her sister and we chose to have them so I chose to take the responsibility to make it work. Over 3 years later, she is one of the sweetest out of our bunch. She just took longer to learn to trust us but once she did, it was a wonderful change. Like I said, it took months though.

I've had my girls for a month and Ohana is VERY protective and has lunged at me a few times when I've opened the pouch. Priss is a doll and doesn't care.

I knew this was a GREAT possibility and I signed up for it, so we're working on it. I would never get rid of either of them, though.