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Are pepper and potato males or females?

My first suggestion would be to raise the smell issue with your parents, get them to go into the room and smell it themselves and look at the state of the tank. Mention it is hard to live in the room with the smell let alone do things like study. My second suggestion is to make them go and...

It sounds like his back teeth not the front ones may be the issue. What he is expelling is more likely food and saliva/water that he can not swallow from his mouth. It is true guinea pigs can not vomit but that doesn't mean they can not expel things from their mouths. They can not pass things...

To me it just looks like urine that has been sitting for some time and oxidised. The fleece doesn't seem to be allowing the urine to wick through to any absorbent layers, at lest in that particular spot.

I'm very sorry but it really sounds like he is passing away. Sometimes it is not quick. The dry heaving, wide open mouth gaging sounds like what is called agonal breathing which happens during the final stages of dying.

I would keep the cage away from the girls and in your bedroom. If he were to break his teeth chewing the bars while you are gone I doubt your neighbour would notice or be able to help.

That is simply not true and ignorant to the problems associated with guinea pig pregnancies. They are clearly not going to mate if you simply don't allow un-neutered males any access to un-neutered females at all. Then no mating will happen and no pregnancies will happen. Pregnancy...

You should be fairly certain by the time she would be six weeks along, keeping track of her weight will help.

If they mate successfully while she is in heat the odd are pretty much 99% she will be pregnant as a result. If there was a cage separator in the way the whole time she was in heat he is unlikely to have been able to mate with her successfully but it is not impossible. He won't die from not...

Female guinea pigs will reject the advances of males when they are not in heat, when they are in heat they will become much more receptive. Do not put them together for any reason at any time, supervised or not, until four weeks after he is neutered. They don't care if you are watching or not...

The risks of neutering really depend on the experience of the vet doing it, it is much risker than most other animals. However in the hands of an experienced vet the odds are quite good for a successful outcome. If you don't have a vet with a lot of experience neutering guinea pigs then the odds...

All the behaviour you describe he had with the baby are normal and good, he was just trying to establish dominance over the baby but would have settled down given more time. Guinea pigs don't play with each other like some other animals. When you bring home a new guinea pig (assuming you will...

Some guinea pigs do okay on there own after the death of a cage mate, others really do not. I would look for another older cage mate if the remaining one is younger than 6 and is in good health, or doesn't do ok on their own. If you find yourself in this situation you could maybe even consider...

Expect them to have disagreements again when one or the other goes into heat. That can happen with sows and may have been the issue post birth, as giving birth does make them go into heat. Some sows just have more hormonal related behaviours then others. On a side note there is no reason to...

Roaning causes speckling of white fur in patches of colour, now the gene can express all over or just in limited places. If a guinea pig happens to have white patches on it naturally it is possible for roaning to only express in places it is already white meaning it looks no different to a...

Are they visually obviously roan? No. Does that mean they don't have the roan gene? No. Sometimes the gene expresses as a single white hair in a patch of colour. It is just one of many reasons why breeding guinea pigs is a bad idea. Even if they are not roan pregnancy and birthing still carries...

Looks like two girls to me. You can also feel for a firm line just under the skin right above the genitals, male guinea pigs have a bone in their penis and you can feel it. If it just feels soft and squishy that's a girl, if you feel a line that is a boy. You can then gently push down where the...

If it doesn't firm up in the next day or two without veggies its fairly safe to say the veggies aren't contributing to the problem. In that case I would take him to a good exotic vet, ideally find one that has a lot of guinea pig experience. It could be something like parasites, an overgrowth of...

I personally would cut all veggies for at least a few days and see if the poops change. If they do then add the veggies back in one at a time, starting with bell pepper, with at least 48 hrs between each veg being re-introduced. Also look into getting him a pro-biotic, bene-bac has a gel...

It is very very hard for a guinea pig to be overweight unless they have been drastically overfed pellets, particularly if they are lower quality pellets, or they have mobility issues. Adult guinea pigs are normally pear shaped with a round stomach. Also when they get sick they typically drop...