Quinn and Cherise lost their mother when they were only 3 weeks out of pouch.  Their owner was in the hospital at the time and the owner's roommate because of his job was unable to hand feed them on a regular schedule.  My husband and I drove to get them as a favor to our dear friend.  When I first got them I was terribly worried about what to do.  Thanks to Bourbon, Maria, and some other very devoted glider owners, my worries began to ease up.  The joeys were housed until they were 5 1/2 weeks oop in a glass 10 gallon aquarium with a heat pad set on low under the aquarium.  The joeys were unwilling to take the marsupial milk replacer whether by eye dropper, by bottle, by syringe, or by hand or bowl.  So that lead to option number two.  I tried handfeeding them Bourbon's modified leadbeaters.  I would put a little bit on my fingers and allow them to lick it off.  They loved it.
        Every two hours at first, day or night, I got up and stimulated the joeys to go potty by rubbing a warm wet q-tip on their bottoms and them offered them food, one at  a time.  When the first one would stop eating or seemed to lose interest, I would proceed to feeding the next and then go back to the first.  I always left 2 baby food jar lids with food and water in them in the aquarium to see if the joeys would travel out on their own to eat any.  It didn't take them long to find the food.  By 4 weeks oop I had stretched the feedings to every 3 hours and then to every 4 when I noticed them eating well on their own.  By 5 weeks oop, I no longer got up during the night with them since they were finding the food well on their own and I had offered them food during the  day every 4-5 hours.  Sometimes they were more interested in playing than eating (which i found to be a good sign).
    The joeys are now in a cage of their own.  They are able to regulate their body
temperature well on their own and are very active and playful.  They are able to locate food on their own and are just starting to show more interest in solid foods.
      Their tails are starting to get fluffy and they are pottying well on their own.