Pet Sugar Glider

In captivity gliders will often mate 3 times a year and possibly more. Litter size is usually 1, sometimes 2 and rarely 3 babies. Just as with other marsupials, baby gliders are called joeys. Sugarglider offspring have a 16 day gestation period at which time they are born and emerge from the mother completely blind and helpless, and must find their own way into the mothers pouch to finish development. The joey finds one of four nipples that will swell in its mouth and keep it firmly attached for up to 40 days.

SugarGliders eat a varied diet in the wild and feed through out their own teritory. In Australia although common along the eastern coast they are rarely seen. Their natural diet consists of insects, native fruit, flowers, and sap.

Gliders are "sap suckers" by nature and cannot be sustained by dry foods and off-the-shelf food pellets that are designed for other small animals such as hamsters. Sap suckers chew their food to extract the liquids and then most often spit out the remains. A simple way to look at it is that they need squishy, wet, naturally sweet, and quickly perishable foods.