Now it's the other two!!!!

[tasha]

I woke up this morning to find the other two sisters (Sammy and Marty) covered in blood!!!! So now all three are fighting each other!
I am so confused because those two were especially close and had never had a hint of problems before. Sammy is the dominant and far biggest of the three and Marty is the one that was in a fight yesterday with Smat. I don't know who started it. When i came in the room, they were sitting in opposite corners of the tank very still.

I didn't know where to put them, so i have Smat alone in a separate tank (their previous playpen) where i put her after the fight yesterday, and i've split the tank that Sammy and Marty are in. Is it okay to have them see/smell each other immediately after a fight?

Marty has never shown any signs of being a bully at all and is the smallest and friendliest of the three, so i don't know why she was in both fights. It was the other two that seemed to be having some problems with each other.

I don't understand what went wrong or what to do about it -- especially now that i have all three separated. I can't do a 3-way split cage or they won't have enough room to move around. I'm so upset about this whole thing. Please help!

[tasha]

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[panthershadow83]

I'm no expert in this... but here's what I would suggest:

Put their cages next to each other, and do it in a triangular shape. Something like:

|Cage One| |Cage Two|
............|Cage Three|.............

Then pretend it is a split cage. Do the transfering, which might be tricky. Make sure each gerbil is changed to a different gerbil's cage each time.

Did this help?

[AndreaS15]

I would suggest removing the one who keeps being in the fights and finding her a new tankmate, a young gerbil 5 or 6 weeks old.

Females are alot harder to split cage and what not. And I think if you keep them all together you will just keep having this happen.... or worse