Quote Originally Posted by cali View Post
miss Z, in you case I think a major factor was that you had 3 females together. this is fine for males, but you should never house more then 2 females together.
Yeah, we didn't plan on getting three together, but as they were all the last remaining in the litter, we didn't want to leave one alone. Seeing as they got on very well to begin with, we thought we'd be lucky with them. I think maybe the change of environment probably triggered the behaviour as they'd never been outside of my brother's room before.

What you said about a good companion for a dominant gerbil was interesting, because that was Twilight completely. She was larger and placid. Nightshade, I suppose, was just quite flighty and prepared to let Ebony bully her.

Still, I think my gerbils are very happy to live on their own now.