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Post by j on Aug 23, 2004 13:10:59 GMT -8
Yeah that's what happened.
I ended up taking it out completely. I didn't really worry about the mom staying clean.. I was more afraid of her having any pieces of sand stuck to her when she went near the pups. Could've kept the respitory infection going.
I did give her one once in a while though.. I just torutured her by wiping her off with papertowels to make sure none was stuck to her. ;D
I accidentally bought some kind of 'dust' the other day.. I didn't like it at all..It's like flour or chalk dust..really messy and too dusty. Their coats definatly do not look as good either as it did on the usual stuff. =/
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Post by queenofthenile on Aug 23, 2004 16:09:14 GMT -8
J, I've been attempting to potty train my gerbils and I notice that their tank stinks more with the sand bath in there. Maybe sand doesn't hold odours as well, and that's why you had problems ??
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Post by veronic on Aug 25, 2004 2:24:28 GMT -8
Hello,
It is true that the sand gets quite smelly. My gerbils first roll in it but after 1/2 hour or so only use it as a toilet area which is when I put a bit of bedding in it to soak the smell, they don't seem to mind, indeed kick some bedding in it themselves but keep using it as their toilet area, but anyway I tend to change the sand every other day.
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Post by RW on Aug 25, 2004 4:54:26 GMT -8
Yep, it's true that sand starts to smell pretty quickly.
Several of my tanks have permanent sandbowls. How frequently they need changed depends on how many gerbils are using the sand and how much they use it for a potty. For my nutmeg, Birdie, who lives in the split tank, about every other day is right. For my male trio, even though they live in a large tank (36"x18") and have two big sandbowls, I have to change them every day. The downside is that I go through a lot of sand, but the tanks do stay much cleaner. My trio, especially, are little pigs and their old tank, a 20L, got nasty within a few days of cleaning it. I can tell a big difference by switching them to the larger tank and adding the sandbowls.
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Post by RW on Aug 25, 2004 5:02:39 GMT -8
Was it chinchilla dust? I tried it once, too, and didn't like it either. It made a big dust cloud in the tanks when the gerbils rolled in it and my black gerbil looked like a refugee from the eruption Mt. Vesuvius.
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Post by birko on Aug 27, 2004 16:10:17 GMT -8
my gerebils always run away from me and i can get them but i have tried all that stuff taming em and nuts it wont work they arnt vishus iver when i try and catch them could sumone plz help.
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