In Reply to: Re: Gliding / keeping the new Male posted by Denis on April 18, 2000 at 01:38:55:

Ok I have been thinking about this one. If you never take him away I don't think it will be an acceptance issue. I am afraid of posting the wrong information here..so I hope someone else will post. I know that gliders will inbreed if you keep them together. I know this happens with siblings, but from the reaserch I did I can not specificly find information on parents and child. I believe what would happen is this. Once your new baby reached sexual maturity he could possible try and mate with the mom. Inbreeding is something you really want to stay away from!! Also when he reached sexual maturity you may find some dominance issues with him and dad. I think you would be best of nuetering your new baby before sexual maturity, and/or keeping him in a seperate cage. This is the only way to ensure that he won't mate with mom or fight with dad. Fighting could occur, but I seriously doubt that it would if you nuetered him early on, and he was never seperated from his parents. The onyl other issue is smell. If you carry him all day long, then he will smell like you. I do not know how well you get along with mom and dad. If they do no trust your smell that might cause some problems, but I don't think that would happen unless they are really afraid of your smell. Anyways I may be totaly off, but this is what I came up with from some reaserching. I hope that soemone with actual experience in thsi will reply here. They may neevr mate with their parents, sp then I guess it wouldnt be a problem. Can anyone else help here!!

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