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Help 2 of my gerbils bite eachother

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xxnoukyxx · 25/05/2015 11:57

I have bought 3male gerbils from the same nest.
For quite a long time everything has gone very well with the 3 of them.
sadly a couple weeks ago one of my gerbils had some sort of stroke?
like he couldnt walk he looked like he was going to die and i think it left him with braindamage.
After that everything seems to go wrong with 2 of my gerbils (sora and axel)
they keep boxing and squeking. they keep scaring eachother away from their sleeping places and now they started really hurting eachother by biting. one of my gerbils noses this morning was completly red from blood he is missing a tooth and he seems to be in quite some pain.. but the other gerbil also has wounds on his chin.
I don't really know what to do after all of this. i read alot about seperating the gerbils but i don't know which one to take out. because i dont want to end up taking the wrong one out and he ends up hurting my other gerbil aswell..
And also the gerbil with the bleeding nose started hurting himself after the stroke.. asin he started biting his own weewee
please help me out x-x

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xxnoukyxx · 25/05/2015 11:58

Sorry my english isn't that great

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mrstweefromtweesville · 25/05/2015 12:04

Separate all three of your gerbils. My mum had two and one ate the other.

xxnoukyxx · 25/05/2015 12:09

Thank you for your advice i appriciate it alot

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juliascurr · 25/05/2015 12:09

are they male? might fight more
www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/pets/rodents/gerbils
meanwhuile - 3 cages

xxnoukyxx · 25/05/2015 14:04

yes all 3 of them are male gerbils.
but it has never been this bad i now separated 1 of the gerbils to see what is going to happen
if the other 2 still end up fighting im going to separate those aswell

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xxnoukyxx · 25/05/2015 14:09

the thing is tho i just read this on the link you send me
"Gerbils need:

To live with other gerbils, they should never be kept alone. "
so now im abit stressed by how it will all work ouy :\

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juliascurr · 28/05/2015 11:02

hmmm...
separate compartments in cage so they can get 'space' if needed?
www.google.co.uk/search?q=hamster+cage+multi+level&espv=2&biw=1024&bih=499&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=fedmVczvKpX7sATzooPIDg&ved=0CD8QsAQ

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