oh and also- I learned this caring for my sugar gliders - as far as fruit prep goes I used to buy just tons of whatever fruit was on sale (and of course acceptable for their dietary needs) and chop it up into little pieces and freeze it in a big zip lock then whenever I fed them fruit I would just chip out a spoonful and toss it in their dish - and of course clean the dishes each day because obviously old fruit is not desireable in open air haha. Yeah it took a lot of time to chop up all that fruit but in the end it was WAY easier and WAY more convenient than doing it daily - I had to do it like once every two weeks or so - easy way to spend a few hours on a Sunday afternoon.