not bad... not bad... very creative... but i think to avoid u from sweeping the floor everyday, u better make the bedding tray edge higher a bit loh... like 4-5 inches...? juz my 2 cent...

bravo bravo..
but keeping in cage will make the place messy with beddings..and smelly also..thats why me orefer tank..
i use to make those kind of cage from BRC jaring..also using kemahiran hidup skill in the past..but not to keep hamster..for other animals like ayam serama,guniea pig and also quails..

btw yasterday i poisoned one new friend that come to my room..
at last decide to buy my hammies hahahaha

yesterday i bought crickets for rm1... out of 4 hamsters only Bibi ate them (after i 'disabled' the crickets), she ate 1 and a half, Bobo & Jiji didn't like them and Jojo didn't eat also but he killed the crickets for fun... waste my seringgit only... i think if today also don't eat, better switch to mealworms again...

thats why i only buy once...then no more cricket..
my hammies dont want to eat...
the protein mainly they get from cats kibble..mealworms also not main diet for my hammies..bcoz when buy cepat sangat licin so must go to petshop again to buy hehe..

Update: my ww just escape twice today. 1st at 5am. saw him at the kitchen eating sumthing at the floor. catch it and put back in the cage. now, when i got-up, then the ww is gone again ! damn. cannot find it la. just got the ww 2 days ! and now he MIA !

maybe, i will buy some lexan or persplex plate to cover most of the cage surface. it sure cannot escape ! but those things are expensive ..


woahh. why the repeated post ? .. sure sure.. but let me finished mine first ok.


yeah. thats the main idea. to make it like an apartment. then put drift wood, small window wood at the side to make it look like and old wooden challet or villa. wooden roof, and some plastic leaves, hahaha. sure look great !

yeah. i will post link to the build-up process pictures. about the wired mesh, i'm not sure.

it has an 1" edge. my floor is very clean ! . but just arraille said better make it higher... thanks for the advice !

thanks ! i will try to make it this week.

Wah... good handy work also.... but the wire mesh availabel in our local hardware shops are galvanised wire... and I was about to DIY a rat cage when I came upon many websites saying that galvanised wire can be toxic.... the best if coated wire mesh which I do not think we can find here.... Well, hope not much chewing is done lah.

Also, the floor pan is a bit too low.... bedding sure kick out later unless your hamster doesn't dig. Overall, this kind of cage has good ventilation lah.

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Added on March 15, 2007, 1:42 pmDid you look at the old hamster thread? A pic of a Het silver grey is on the 1st page.
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/348425

I do not think there is a golden het grey. Silver grey looks silvery... a light grey. Het grey would look slightly creamy in colour.

If it is golden and the fur under coat is something else, it could be some other colour. Is your hamster a black eyed hamster?

This post has been edited by crazymouse_yyh: Mar 15 2007, 01:42 PM

Dazzle, wud is the tank that you're using to house ur hamsters?? I saw the pictures in the first post and it looks very superb to me .

yeah. tot about it also. coated ? hmmm. better buy the finished ready-stock cage lar .. my money flow like the niagra fall woo . buy that, buy this .. and the cage is actually dangerous for the ww. arghh ..

in my opinion... plastic tank (not habitrail one, but plastic fish tank) is the most practical one... easy to clean, odour controlled, no spilt bedding, no wire bitting & no insect ingress-egress... hassle free...

p/s: for my syrians, i put wood block for them to gnaw...

This post has been edited by arraille: Mar 15 2007, 05:55 PM

arraille where u got ur syrian from?

Jojo & Jiji from Petsmore Queenspark
Bobo & Bibi from Petsmore Carrefour Kepong

She is long-haired. Eyes totally black in colour - shining black like cyrstal. Then her entire body is golden in colour and the inside of the fur is greyish (not silver) wor. Yay,, i saw the picture in the old thread and his colour is much much much darker than that. Golden brown and inside is normal grey colour. I wanted to snap some pictures of her but she kept moving around non-stop.

i'm waiting for that.. huhu..
btw, thank you..

galvanized wire is not good for hamster cage, cause hamster will bite the galvanized wire netting. This will cause future brain damage and the galvanized is poison when been eaten.
Surf to hamster website frequently on the care a hamster.
So I hope your hamster never bite the cage.

Read this article:
http://www.birdsnways.com/wisdom/ww14eii.htm

This post has been edited by dazzle: Mar 15 2007, 08:16 PM

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sorry on last reply .

I used Perspex to build my hamster Cage.

This is safer that the galvanized netting cage .

Perspex is selling expensive at certain hardware shop.

But I get free 1.

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Added on March 15, 2007, 9:13 pmyour Robos quit fair.

Mine colour is darker and quit big size.



This post has been edited by dazzle: Mar 15 2007, 09:13 PM

Ah... your Syrian colour could be a golden hamster.... I had one long ago...... not het silver grey. Then the other could be a spotted Golden... I can't see the colour cleary on the head since can see more white heheheh....

Long haired Golden hamsters tend to be more grey than short haired Golden hamsters..... Well, this is what I have read here

http://www.geocities.com/dyno08/hamagouti.html

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Added on March 15, 2007, 9:54 pmOr it could be an Umbrous Golden.... I'm not very sure but umbrous causes the fur to be either a shadow of dark grey or light grey....

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Added on March 15, 2007, 10:25 pmhttp://www.geocities.com/dyno08/hamtypecolor.html

Good website for Syrian hamsters... can see almost all the colour varieties in it.

This post has been edited by crazymouse_yyh: Mar 15 2007, 10:25 PM

POst a pic, maybe I can help ID the colour for you.

Syrian posted the pics already... you look up lah.

Oh... The syrian in the middle picture right? That's a normal long haired syrian.

Golden syrians have slate blue under colouring