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Post by nikolaixx on Jan 30, 2015 9:04:07 GMT -8
I bought one gerbil about a month ago a couple weeks after having him I bought a friend. I did the split cage for 2 weeks they started fighting after smelling each other for a minute. I don't know what to do. Will they never get along since they already met and fought? What should I do? I really want them to get along. I see these videos of vanilla extract and they get along immediately or I see the split cage and they get along when they take it out. But my gerbils don't. Any advice?
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Post by nutmeg01 on Feb 3, 2015 10:34:27 GMT -8
How old are they? Gerbils often get harder to introduce as they get older but usually if you persist with the split cage it will work, sometimes it takes a matter of days and sometimes it takes months it just depends on the gerbils you have although some gerbils just don't get on. *I have never tried the vanilla extract method but i have found split caging usually works  |
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Post by betty on Feb 7, 2015 0:01:03 GMT -8
It's not the length of time you do the split cage for - the split is just a means to getting them used to each others' scent on both sides of the wire.
So if you just did the split for 2 weeks regardless of how the gerbils reacted, then you have a good chance of doing it again and it being successful.
Often gerbils take a bit longer to settle in to the scent of another gerbil for whatever reason, so 2 weeks is fast in my experience. I would go back to the split with them and watch out for their behaviour changes and forget about counting days; there is no exact number so at least you know that they should eventually get together, so a slow split is still a good thing in my opinion.
I've not heard of the vanilla extract mix either, but there are people who try bonding gerbils in a variety of different ways - so as long as you just follow one way and follow it properly - you should get the result you want.
Good Luck.
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