Gerbils

Skynet5 · 2 May 2019 at 20:37

Feek said:
*snip*
Sounds like you're talking about hamsters, not gerbils. Gerbils aren't nocturnal and really shouldn't be kept by themselves, they're sociable creatures.
Hamsters are nocturnal and are fine by themselves.

Yeah that's my understanding ...apparently they hardly smell too..as the don't wee a whole lot and poo is solid. Sounds like me actually..we should get on fine.

Skynet5 · 4 May 2019 at 13:13

Gerbils have arrived. Photos soon...

Skynet5 · 6 May 2019 at 21:01

Huggie86 said:
wheres the pics??

Uploading some now...they are not very sociable just yet.

Skynet5 · 6 May 2019 at 21:02

Skynet5 · 6 May 2019 at 21:06

We have 3 gerbils. Planned for 2, but didn't want to leave 1 behind. Sure that's the stores plan, lol. All males..he hope.

Current names:

Chilli (reddish eyes..creepy)
Taupe/Torp (taupe it colour, torpedo in nature)
Ice (colour of fur)

The lad seems happy, but explaining (again) that you cant just expect them to be easy to pick up etc from day 1. Great learning experience for him.

Skynet5 · 6 May 2019 at 21:24

Some feedback from Imgur .... Too much substrate. They seem happy though?!?

Skynet5 · 29 Jul 2020 at 23:15

Assimilator1 said:
Good to hear , I wonder if the op has had equally good results?

Missed all this.

Yes, the gerbils are fantastic. They are very sociable and we only have a few nips early on. The lad loves them and they are happy to go a day with out holding but they get a handle every 2 days easy.

They don't smell at all, but ideally you do need a removable tray that hopefully they pee in. As the smell does develop as the wood is used more. We've replaced it only once and that was recently.