In Reply to: Update (long post) posted by Denis on February 24, 2000 at 06:19:29:

: Hi, haven´t been around much due to work. Just wanted to update everyone who wants to know on my four little babies.
: Neon and Mary are not fully bonded to me yet, and I think they won´t be and are fine with their life situation as it is now (I take them out of their cage every second day and let them run around the living room for a few hours. (Although every evening I have to be VERY creative to find a way to get them back into their cage. I think Mary is pregnant again (can´t see anything yet, but She´s getting crabby again like during her first pregnancy.) Neons doing fine, also, eating well and everything.
: Their two little daughters (Silk and Velvet - my girlfriend chose the names) I´ve moved to a second cage to prevent inbreeding. Although they look exactly the same, they couldn´t have much more different personalities. Silk is fully bonded and very friendly even to strangers, while Velvet is somewhat more....lets say "independent". She crabs when I come near her, evades my hands and even bit me once. However, I think it will become better - yesterday she "forgot" to crab until she had snuggelt up in my shirt, then started lunging at me viciously but wouldn´t leave me either. Maybe she just needs her peace a little bit more than her sister.

Our first set of twin girls, Patsy and Edina, are polar opposites. Eddy loves to be held and cuddled, Patsy hates hands and will crab and bite if you reach for her with your fingers. She is the smartest glider I know. She got into the heating ducts one time and spent a couple of hours letting daddy chase her from one room to another. I had put the suspended rope hiway too close to the vents. That room now has a wire grate in the vent to keep gliders out.

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