We just got a pair of adult sugar gliders yesterday. We really would like to be able to enjoy our new suggies, but every time we even enter the room they are in they start crabbing. I dont know what to do to get them to let us come near them, let alone hold them. Any help would be appriciated.
Shila

You should give them a few days to get adjusted to their surrounding. There are new sights, sounds, smells, voices... You can talk softly whenever you're near the cage and when you're bringing them their food. Cut up some pieces of fleece and keep them on you for a day and then put it in their pouch with them to get used to your scent. After a few days, start hand feeding some treats so they know you aren't going to eat them for dinner. :) Trust me, it gets easier, but right now they are probably really, really scared and confused. Welcome, by the way!

Well,first off I didn't know to do anymore than you did when I brought my girls home 17 days ago.
By all accounts I figure that my girls are in the neighborhood of 14-17wks old. . rather late to do what I would think to be an easier bonding verse what I'm going through now.
I had the same issues that you are having with one of the girls being a blood drawing biter. They had been use to sleeping in a towel and I found this to be a dangerous place to stick my hand to try and pick them up so once I got ahold of them I put them in their carrying pouch where they now sleep and where I can unpin the cord (I pin the carrying cord outside the cage to keep them from getting tangled up should they get the cord into the cage during the nightime) and can pick up the pouch at will to carry them throughout the times I am off work.
I had not gotten online as yet to ask any questions on my dilemma til the 2nd day I had had these girls so up to that point I was carrying them around as much as possible,gently massaging the pouch and continually talking to them.
I got online as you have and I got my very first GREAT IDEA to stop blood drawing bites that works BEATUTIFULLY! ! ! I was instructed to use meat/applesauce babyfood. The poster did not get back to me quick enough to answer my question as to whether I needed to mix this or not SO I took it upon myself to just go ahead and mix chicken meat and applesauce babyfood half and half to mix up as this poster called it. . . "Liquid Gold" and it is just that!
In less than 3 days,carrying these girls around with me as much as I could,massaging the bag,talking to them and offering them the "Liquid Gold" through the day they have all but quit crabbing at me at all!

Even during the early night hours when they start getting out of their pouch to move around and in the early hours of the morning before going to sleep I offer the "Liquid Gold" and now in 17 days of ownership they are actually thinking about coming out of the open cage door to lean out to get their "treat".

This "Liquid Gold" has allowed me to be able to stick my hand into the cage without one of the most tempermental girls wanting to "posture" and crab at me AND it has encouraged the most dosile one of the girls to quit running for cover when I approached the cage.

As I have been told and as you will be told not only by me but other posters. . . this is NOT to take the place of a diet but it is a great "peace maker" and "friend maker".

Let me know if it works as well for you as it did for me.

When they are in their cage and in their pouch I NEVER EVER go into my bedroom that I don't announce my entrance so that they will get use to my voice and so to not startle them. Even my 6 and 4yr old grandchildren are learning to not move quickly around them or to make any loud noises. . . we all but whisper in Grammie's bedroom now.