Plaidfish said:
they eat fruit.....probably some feed as well......
Actually, this is a bit of a misconception, and it's really widespread. We got schooled on this one BIGTIME, yes they love fruit but like kids, too much and they get CAVITIES! The alpha male in our "troupe" got an abcessed tooth and we had to pay a couple benjies to get it extracted. He was also getting very FAT. The vet told us no, they need proteins more than sugary stuff. Add the fruits and sweet stuff as treats.
In the wild, they use their sharp bottom teeth to puncture the bark of Eucalyptus and other trees to suck out the sweet nectar, and that's where they get their name, but largely they live on live insects, nuts, and seeds.
We feed ours a mixture of baby cereal, vegetables (cooked green beans, peas, carrots, etc.,) cooked beans, with a little Kiwi, apples, or other fruit. Three times a week, live mealworms. They LOVE peanuts, in or out of the shell, but too many will make them fat. On the side we always leave a small bowl of glider feed, very much like rabbit pellets.
If you want to have FUN - throw a handful of crickets in their cage. They case around them, hunting, watching, then ruthlessly pounce. It's awesome to watch, reminds me of Gremlins.
rocknbil, i'll keep in mind those sugar gliders. They seem a little on the high maintenance (just because of all the attention they need) . . .
I may have misled you, it's not so much they need a lot of attention, like Plaid says you just need to give them attention every day so they don't get all wild on you. It helps keep them familiar so they don't bite at you every time you handle them. They are nocturnal. During the day, they like to sleep in their pouch, so you just take the pouch out of the cage and carry it around with you (people love to know what's inside, it would be a great way to pick up girls.
) At night they get out of the pouch and run around the cage, they also make this barking noise . . . hard to describe but like a really LOUD squeak toy. So they might keep you up at night.
But you do have to plan on a lifelong relationship, like a dog or something, if left alone in the case with no human contact they get morose and a little wild, which is the best reason to have two, they keep each other company.
1) Here's all 4 of them with the pouch top open . . .
2) Here's all four gathered around some banana baby food in a lid, note the wider spot on the top of the heads of the males. They males have a scent gland on the top of their head. They aren't too smelly, but it's that same animal smell like rabbits have.
Their fur is REALLY soft like a chinchilla.
3) Most people keep their S.G.'s in a small bird cage which is fine, but we have a large one in the corner of the living room, they love the space and go nuts in there. Here you can see three of them together, and if you look close you can see the skin they use to glide with. One of our friends had a S.G. she'd take to the park and throw back and forth with a friend, they got to love it.
WOW, how'd I get three attachments in one post? must be if you post an attachment immediately after, it appends the previous . . . 
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