Am I ready for a Sugar Glider?

[Misscreant]

I researched Sugar Glider care and made a list of what is needed. Any help, advice, or comments is much appreciated. So, am I ready for a Sugar Glider?


Sugar Gliders:
2 Normal colored about $325

Housing:
http://www.sugar-gliders.com/large-cage-kit.htm
Product ID # 7005
$193.18
One Green Bonding Pouch and
Two Green Sleeping Pouches - you will have an extra one for wash day
3 lbs of Zookeeper's Secret
One Vionate Vitamin supplement
One RepCal Calcium supplement
One Glass Water Bottle
Sugar Glider Stork is Coming guide

PLUS
One Corn-shaped Double Food Cup
One Apple-shaped Food Cup
One Wodent Wheel
One Feather Teaser
Two Rope Toys

Diet:
Each night:

- Leadbeater’s Mix
½ cup apple juice
½ honey
2 boiled eggs
½ cup Gerber baby cereal in dry flakes
¼ cup wheat germ
1 ¼ tsp. Rep-Cal (Calcium supplement with no phosphorus)
1 tsp Herptivite (Vitamin supplement)

Dump everything in a blender and puree until lump free. I pour it into an airtight plastic container and freeze it, so it won't spoil before it's all used. It freezes to about the consistency of ice cream, so it's easy to scoop out a serving of it each night.
One recipe of Leadbeater's Mix will make roughly 50 glider servings, depending on how generously you scoop it.

-Pour approximately 1/3 cup of fruit juice over 2-3 monkey biscuits. Mix in a tablespoon of Pretty Bird softbill pellets and calcium supplement. Add several pieces of fruit and 2 teaspoons of Leadbeater's Mix.





Every third night:

-Meat and veggies
Ground turkey meat, simmered in a small amount of water until fully cooked -- serving size is about 1/8 cup of meat and 1/3 cup broth. Pour over monkey biscuits (2-3 biscuits, or 1/4 cup) to soak adding extra water if needed, and mix in a couple of tablespoons of frozen mixed vegetables. Add calcium supplement and mix (my males seem to eat first, so I don't sprinkle it on top of the food or they would get it all). Spoon into feeding dish, add a couple chunks of fruit and 2 teaspoons of Leadbeater's Mix on the side.

Other foods:
- Variety of fresh or frozen fruits (not canned)
- Variety of fresh or frozen vegetables (not canned)
- Applesauce
- Yogurt with live cultures and various flavors
-Baby foods

Tricks:
- Buy different flavors of concentrated frozen juice (100% real fruit juice, no added sugar) and spoon out small amounts, keeping the remainder in the freezer with plastic wrap rubber-banded over the open end of the can. That way they can have different flavors each night for variety.
- Once a week or so chop up several different kinds of fruit and freeze them flat on cookie sheets, then store frozen in ziplock bags for easy retrieval of individual portions.
- Cook the turkey meat in large batches, and freeze it in portions sized for one night's feeding.
- Feed your gliders in disposable paper dishes, the kind you get side dishes in at fast food restaurants. You can buy them in bulk at wholesale grocery stores. That way you don't have dishes to wash every day but the gliders get clean dishes every night.
- Baby foods can be frozen in party cube trays if you only have one or two gliders, or are feeding babies. Store the cubes in ziplock bags once frozen; that way you can give them different flavors each night with no waste.

General Care:

-Fed fresh meals daily
-Cages cleaned once or twice a week
-Play mostly at night

I got my information from:
http://www.skinhorse.net/gliders/
http://www.sugar-gliders.com/

[LeahPrincess]

Did you research possible diseases/complications?

[sugarmama]

bravo so far! keep looking online and i think you wll do great! i believe you have learned alot u also might want to look into buying a glider care book..i have one by caroline macpherson and i still look into it now and then to double check things

[Misscreant]

Originally Posted by LeahPrincess

Did you research possible diseases/complications?

I will, thank you.

Originally Posted by sugarmama

bravo so far! keep looking online and i think you wll do great! i believe you have learned alot u also might want to look into buying a glider care book..i have one by caroline macpherson and i still look into it now and then to double check things

I'll look into that too, thanks!

[Misscreant]

Now all i got to do is save my money.

[LeahPrincess]

I know alot about gliders, just not about diets and nutrition which is the most important thing. I would prefer to read a book so most likely I will do so on that subject.