All About My Humans By Arnold My humans … My humans, they are quite a pair I love to crawl in their clothes and play in their hair. I love my life with them a lot, it’s just fine And as busy as they are, for me they always have time. I love to dive …
Frequently Asked Question: Gut Loading By Dr. C. Last month’s article on nutrition certainly created a lot of questions from our subscribers, but by far the number one question concerned gut loading. When you buy live insects from a pet store or a mail order house, the insects are usually underfed. This cuts down on the poop and …
What Temperature is Right for Sugar Gliders? By Lisa & Debbie One of the most frequent questions that we get asked by new sugar glider owners is what temperature is best for sugar gliders? This is a great question and an important one in order to create the best environment for our small marsupial buddies. …
Frequently Asked Question: What is the Best Sugar Glider Pre-packaged Food? By Lisa Note to readers: This article appeared in July 2002, and some things have changed in the sugar glider food area since then. For one thing, there are more staple foods available. Also, unlike when this article was written, we now produce our own …
Frequently Asked Question: Sugar Glider Nectar or Glideraid? By Lisa We have received a ton of email asking our opinion on the use of Sugar Glider Nectar, and similarly branded Glideraid products. We have tried a wide variety of products in this category, including Nekton, Glideraid, Gliderade, Glider Gold and Sugar Glider Nectar. After testing …
Color Variations – Part II Information Provided By Judie Hausmann It is a great pleasure to bring you information this month from a long time member of the glider community and breeder of specialized colors. Color breeding has not traditionally been a focus here at SunCoast, but it’s a topic that many are interested in …
Sugar Glider Rescue – Part II By Lisa We get a ton of calls and e-mail from people who are trying to decide whether to rescue or buy a joey. Quite often the people who choose rescue end up with problems they never anticipated – problems we are asked to help them resolve. Here are …
Keeping Gliders in Colonies of Three or More – Part I By Lisa Most of you who know us and have taken the time to correspond know that we are major advocates of sugar gliders living with buddies of the same species. They are, of course, colony animals in the wild and seek attention at …
Keeping Gliders in Colonies of Three or More – Part 2 By Lisa Last month we started off our discussion of keeping gliders in groups larger than pairs and touched on some of the more positive reasons for considering such a setup. To review that article, click here. This month, we thought it prudent to advise …
Becoming a Sugar Glider Breeder – Part I Part 2 Part 3 By Lisa and Arnold Ah! What a life! Get up every morning and play with critters! Do a little cleaning and feeding, play with some more critters! Feeling a bit stressed out? Go play with some baby critters! The life of an animal breeder is …