Glass tanks are probably the most secure home for your hamster as they are incredibly deep and often only have one point of entrance from the roof. They offer great visibility for your pet and it makes owning a hamster far more of an exciting spectacle for yourself and guests. However, they are often very large and heavy, making them not very portable, and easy for smaller hamsters to hide in! Choosing a Hamster Cage For example, if someone only has very little space in the room in which they want to put the habitat, they can use the height to their advantage and build a higher DIY-cage with many additional floors (as long as the floor area is at least 100x50 cm). This means basically, if there is enough space for 250x50 cm or something like that then that's great, but if they can only spare 100 or 120 cm of ground space then it's still possible to put together a decent habitat. The Hamster Heaven Metro Hamster Cage by Savic is an extra large cage that is perfect for spoiling your Syrian hamster.

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Even more bedding material/ substrate!– Hamster love to burrow, and so to encourage this behaviour you need at least a 2-inch deep layer of substrate I spoke with a few rodent experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison about why these animals need to be kept in a large cage. They said that “hamsters are very social and active and they love to move around. So they need a lot of room to range around in their cage to live a happy and healthy life. A wheel– Hamsters run up to 6 miles a night in the wild, so ensuring they have an accessory to burn off steam and fulfil their biological needs is important However, this cage’s best feature is without a doubt is its remarkable transparent tunnel which feeds in and out of the cage, offering owners a great spectacle and hamsters a hilarious new passageway.

Hamsters are small and they live in cages, which means their living space needs to be appropriately sized. There has been a lot of debate about this topic over the years, with some people saying that hamsters should have 1 square feet while others say they need 3-4 square feet. Research has shown the ideal size of hamsters cage should be 450 square inches ( the bigger the better). I have the damaged Simba Plus and a ZooZone 1 in front of me. The base of the Simba (and, by extension, all 82cm Marchioro cages?) is a noticeably better quality of plastic, with very little flexing. The ZZ1 seems quite flimsy in comparison.

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There is a huge number of accessories that one can get to entertain their hamster, which can be a big part of the fun! Below we’ll touch on those that we think would be most helpful: However, the best recommendation you would get on a German hamster board or forum is to build as big as possible. Even if you have to move a bit of furniture around, in my opinion it's definitely worth it to give your hamster an adequate home.

Finally, this simple hamster cage. Though it looks straight out of a year six classroom in the mid-90s, it's a classic for a reason. It has a robust wire structure and deep plastic bottom which can be detached to clean. Additionally, it comes with a home, a wheel, a water bottle, and a feeding bowl.