>I've seperated the male and the female for a week now.
>and today I had put them back together and after 5 sec. they where fighting
>again.
>what should I do???
Did you totally physically separate them, or did you do split
cage dividing? If you put them in separate cages...they would
have forgotten each other and of course they would have
fought.
Put a sturdy mesh divider (we get 'hardware cloth' here it's a
stiff wire mesh with about .6 cm spacing, and make a divider
of that that goes from one corner to the opposite corner, to
divide the cage into two triangles. And usually, reinforce the
edge with some stiff wire, and make sure it fits very tightly
from top to bottom and side to side) in the cage, and swap
the animals from one side to the other (put him where she
had been, and her where he had been) once a day without
cleaning the cage. After one to two weeks they should show
signs of trying to groom each other through the mesh, sleeping
up against the divider, etc. Then when you have a day when
you can spend twelve hours within reach of the cage, take the
divider out and watch them. Even if they get along for a few
hours it still might go sour after that, so that is why you have to
be around.
>buy 2 new gerbils and give them new mates???
>or perhaps the female in preignant???
No, just try the split cage for two weeks.
>ps. I have one cage which is 50*30*30 cm how many gerbils can I put in
>here??
Two. One paired up pair. Or one on each side of a split cage
divider.
Deb
Rebel's Rodent Ranch
