Yours should be Winter White agouti then.Just giving u some advice,just buy a tank if u can afford it.Cage really annoying because all hamster like to bite the metal bar till rust.

Hi liette come show a pic of your hammies. are you planning to breed them?

Pumping on fresh food won't make a syrian fat like obese.... if we pump with sun flower seeds then yes lah. Also, Syrians are meant to be big and round. Normally if they go over 120g, that is a good size already. Dogs, cats, rabbits all eat food that is high in grain, protein and fat... so when they look fat, is unhealthy. As long you are not pumping too many mealworms and superworms amd sunflower seeds to your hamster, it will grow according to it's natural size.

Our local Syrians are actually all underweight and don't make the Syrian hamster standards..... this is due to not giving good food to breeding hamsters. Those that have a good diet since young would be able to become big hamsters.

Well big and fat to the correct size but not overweight. Those syrians in UK can weight until 200 grams and that is the hamster standard weight there.

Currently our oldest syrian, JackJack, is about 135 grams only but think he have been gaining weight from the smoothie diet.


First time hear syrian make sound when I transfer him to his new home. Didn't know syrians were vocal also.

On a good diet of fruits and vegetables, it's quite impossible I guess.

Imagine getting fat on salad. Plus some of the fat built would probably be distributed off to form flesh and muscles when our hammies exercise.

Roche got fatter and bigger but she runs often on the wheel and I give them a few hours of run time in their exercise ball in my living room daily.

Sanko wheel is good wheel as it is big enough for Syrian so that their back and spine will not hurt while running in the wheel in their adulthood cos syrian can grow until 6-7 inches in length. The price is around RM55-RM60 depends on where you get it. You can get it from Pet Shack, Pet Lover Center Sunway Pyramid and Pet Safari Ikano. For PLC and PS, I don't know whether they still have their stock or not, but Pet Shack still have a few of it and Pet Shack is slightly cheaper also The other option is Wodent wheel which is very good wheel also. This only can get from Pet Shack as it's fully imported from USA.