Introducing new foods to Sugar Gliders

How to introduce new foods into your Sugar Gliders diet.

Sugar gliders can, and typically are finicky eaters. Not all Sugar gliders will adapt to eating pelleted foods the first time they are offered. The Sugar gliders age, and present diet can be determining factors. Most Sugar gliders adapt to new diets immediately, but if your glider is reluctant, we list several techniques to make the transition.

How to introduce Exotic Nutrition foods to your Sugar Gliders' diet.

Gradual Method

Over a 7 day period fill your Sugar Gliders food dish 1/4 full several times a day maintaining the following proportions of the old and new diet.

Day 1 - 90% old diet & 10% new diet

Day 2 - 80% old diet & 20% new diet

Day 3 - 70% old diet & 30% new diet

Day 4 - 50% old diet & 50% new diet

Day 5 - 25% old diet & 75% new diet

Day 6 - 10% old diet & 90% new diet

Day 7 - 0% old diet & 100 % new diet

Sweetening Method

Add 1/2 teaspoon of honey to the pellets, each day cutting back the amount of honey added until you are feeding with-out honey. Gliderade nectar supplement can be used in place of honey if desired.

Please remember .... Just because your glider may not eat a new food the first day that you offer it, doesn't mean that your Glider won't adapt to the new diet in a short period of time. Do not replace the new food with another food .... until you have offered the new food for a 48 hour period. Let your Glider get hungry ... then see if they try a new food.