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[bugshaw]

Cleaned gerbil tank, filled it back up with nice layers of peat and straw. Gerbils have decided they want to live on a hillside - peat depth now varies from 0 to 8". Have you not heard of tunnels, little gerbil dudes? And I think they've buried their food bowl...

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[techiebabe.livejournal.com]

My fish do that. I leave them lots of nice open swimming space, with rocks and hidey holes around the side and back, and no! they want a heap of gravel, with bare glass in other places.

They then undermine the rock formations so they fall over.

Bah!

PS Gerbil says it's not a hillside, it's a ladder... A bit like piling snow up to make a ramp against prison walls.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Your mom fish don't sound very clever.

Hmm, is the gerbil ramp thing like Thucydides' Siege of Plataea like what I did at school - and can I remember the next steps in the escalation?

[inulro.livejournal.com]

I thought the whole point of gerbils was that they tunnel!

As to food bowls, we eventually gave up and gave them a liberal sprinkling of food in the cage every day.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

They have been very cunning now, and buried their wooden tubes so they have subterranean tunnels :-)

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Gerbils are funny like that. Ours always made hills and heaps.

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it took ours a while to grow into tunnelling. Unhelpfully, I'm completely unable to define "while" here.