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Hi my name is Elizabeth Cantu and I am speaking on behalf of Expert Village. Today we are
talking about sugar gliders and the cost of purchasing the sugar glider and then their
upkeep for about one annual year. The starting price for getting a sugar glider if you are
getting a young animal is about $150. It can go up from there. This is a normal gray sugar
glider who is about two years old and he would cost about $150 either at a pet store or from
a breeder. Pet stores sometimes are a little bit more expensive. There are some color mutations
and they range anywhere from $250 for cinnamons or spotted ones to $1,000 or $2,000 or an
an all white sugar glider. They are very hard to find. Really they are all the same quality
of pet you will just pay more if they are some exotic color. As far as maintenance goes,
these guys are again insectivores so you have to provide live food most of the time for
them or at least some type of dead processed cricket food. There is also produce and supplements.
Between supplements, produce and insects, it runs about $50 a month per sugar glider.
If you have two or more sugar gliders, it goes down slightly because you are not double
buying and you are not wasting as much food but monthly I would pretty much go to the
produce section of the grocery store and drop $50 just for one animal. Bugs will cost you
about $10 to $15 a month and then generally like supplemental protein foods, biscuits
and treats will run you $5 to $10 a month as well. It is a little bit more economical
if you have two but it runs $50 to $60 a month to feed one of these sugar gliders. So you
can add that up over a year to get your estimate. Then other expenses that these guys have which
are just your startup expenses which we will talk about in another clip.