I don't know if this has been discussed before, but it seems that babies are susceptable to trace cleaning chemicals. When the babies were born, my son grabbed a mop bucket to transfer them from Mom's enclosure to the babies enclosure. He had rinsed it out before transfering them, but it had been used for cleaning before then.
We were getting them out to feed them and used that bucket again to hold them while we fed them one at a time in another enclosure. One baby started convulsing and twitching within a couple of minutes of being in the bucket. We took it out and put it in the feeding tub. Not long after that a couple of more babies started doing the same thing. We quickly figured out the bucket might be the cause, so we transfered them to another container. I have the ones that were convulsing isolated from the others to see if they will recover. At least one started acting better after being put into the feeding container for a while. The first one must have been more sensitive to whatever was in the bucket as he had the most adverse reaction. I will keep you posted on their progress.

I guess this is a reminder to be carefull about the cleaning chemicals you use for cleaning their cages and accessories. I didn't think anything of using the bucket before this happend.

Scott E.