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Post by lex on Nov 30, 2004 22:03:46 GMT -4
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Nov 30, 2004 22:11:51 GMT -4
A 75 gallon tank??  It must have taken three people to get it home! I sure don't have the room. So, they hop around. Are they social like gerbils? I assume they don't climb much. Cute little girls. Are they skitish or tameable? Check out the degu photos I posted earlier today.  Why do you think of degus as pets? |
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Post by Hamsters82 on Nov 30, 2004 22:43:54 GMT -4
I think I've heard of these creatures, but I'm not quite sure. Their cute little rodents; they sort of look like the...nevermind!! ;D I looked into my mammal book & found the Desert Jerboa. Guess they're the same.
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Post by lex on Dec 1, 2004 17:33:46 GMT -4
My female is tame but the male is not he hates being touched but won't bite me if I pick him up. They don't really climb but I let them out into a room to hop around about twice a week and they love it. I am getting them a bigger enclosure in about a month, something a foot longer than what they have now.
Then I'll have a spare 75gal wide.....hmmmmm.
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Post by lex on Dec 1, 2004 17:35:58 GMT -4
Oh and I had a couple degu rescues back in the day when I had room for that sort of thing. I had them for about 5 months and I thought they were excellent little critters......very active too omg they LOVED their wheel. Just a tad messy. Definitely a huge tank is best for them, nothing smaller than a 50gal for a pair.
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Dec 1, 2004 20:17:12 GMT -4
Glass tanks that size weigh a great deal, and cost a lot, making it less feasible. I once almost tore off my fingers lugging a 15 gallon home from the pet store a mile away (usually an easy fast walk). I saw on degus.org a habitat in which a cage was attacked on top of a big tank (maybe a 30) creating a lot more vertical space for them to climb up on using branches, as we saw in those Bronx Zoo photos. Check it out; it was a clever design. I never use my bathtub (showers at the gym) so I once thought of fixing that up somehow for degus. ;D I can imagine the jerboas loving to just hop around free all over. It would be nice if they all (gerbs, hams, etc) could be allowed loose to return home, or to me, in due course as my bunny always does. She sometimes disappears for many hours in the big cluttered apartment eventually emerging to say hello or return to her cage where her potty and food is. Well behaved girl she is. Ever keep one of these guys? A Cloud Rat? They are two feet long!  Or an acouchi?  |
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Post by lex on Dec 2, 2004 17:22:39 GMT -4
Both those critters would need a custom build cage.....too big for a 75gal wide. Cloud rats are endangered as well, they are illegal....acouchis are very hard to find.
I was thinking about getting a Netherland dwarf rabbit...they are so cute! Or a chinchilla.
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Dec 2, 2004 22:37:00 GMT -4
I was being ironic.  I may next year consider a dwarf rabbit to keep my present bunny company. I would have to get one pre-spayed for about $150 - less than the price of an actual spay. |
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Post by sapphireratties on Mar 9, 2005 5:14:57 GMT -4
Wow they look like birds legs, gerbil body! lol
and the "cloud rat" looks like a cross between a rat and an opossom! (kinda cute, but the feet are creepy looking)
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Mar 9, 2005 6:57:31 GMT -4
A rat-oppossum! Does look like that. The fingers look creepy as they are so long for holding on to branches. The lighting of that flash phto made them look creepier than norma. They were actually in a very dark display, so dark I could barely see them! I don't think any guards would have wanted me to take flash, but the rat didn't react at all. None of them do.
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Post by mango on Jul 13, 2005 17:06:26 GMT -4
Wow, that's so exotic and beautiful! And the cloud rat, Zouave, looks so.... wierd. Like a possum!
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It must have taken three people to get it home! I sure don't have the room. 
Why do you think of degus as pets?
