You can get a mug or flower pot as a hideout for your syrian if you are on a budget.

We got this from Ikea under the Kitchen section for our duprasi. It cost under RM10. We also bought a small flower pot for our syrians for RM1.50 each.

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Do not get plastic if your syrian is a chewer. You can also look for those wooden house they sell in PLC, Safari, Pet Shack for small animals.

This post has been edited by blurjoey: Jun 27 2008, 10:37 AM

I can't remember the name... But that's them. Anyway I think I got the price wrong in the previous reply. Should be RM19.90 not RM10.

I do have living world house and toilet but I found that they like to pee, poo, store food all inside. Plus their fur will be all wet when they come out. Sauna inside I think. All the pee gets on my syrians' fur and it really smell bad. Currently Kiko is staying in the flower pot with timothy hay as bedding. SamSam sleeps behind it. JackJack is a clean boy and got his wooden bridge, wooden house (with the roof taken off) and living world house to hide in.

Now SamSam and Kiko have made the wodent wheels their home where they sleep, pee and poo in it And they smell again.

Our new mink banded, TimTim, we need to tamed him first so we took out the hideout and the wheel so that he won't be afraid of us. Now he is climbing our hands and can be picked up without scooping. But he only half tamed. We only take the stuffs when we are around him so he can see us all the time. Learned this taming method from Nezu and its working.

This post has been edited by blurjoey: Jun 27 2008, 01:42 PM

You can leave it out for almost 1 day. Sangels mostly feed them 2 spoonfuls at night with the smoothie and by morning or afternoon it will be all gone.

Congrats! Hopefully she will climb your hand on her own

You can get those from Hagen (Habitrail) if you can still find them. Or you can get those from Sanko Wild brand. They do have smaller size silent wheel for dwarves.

Syrians should use the Wodent Wheel Jr or Sanko Wild 21cm Silent Wheel.

Try to use more lighting instead of flash. If your camera have those sports mode, can capture fast motions. Also use macro mode if want to take close-up pics.

The boyboy don't know how to do his job again ar? He's so small compared to the gal

Got take video or not? Would have been very funny to watch also...

He no more virgin la... Last time he fathered 4 babies but the litter died due to the mommy don't know how to take care of the small litter.

Actually if you read those British hamster breeders, they do feed cooked meat and also lots of veges and fruits. They also have something that looks like Foo's smoothie.

Plus you must also know that the hamsters they have their are of good genetic line compared to those here.

I like this hamstery in Leichester UK, called Chocolate Hams. Just look at the size of their syrians and also those rare colors they have there
http://chocolate-hams.piczo.com/?preview=y&cr=2&rfm=y

This post has been edited by blurjoey: Jun 30 2008, 06:29 PM

1. Syrians are the biggest in the hamster family.
2. Petshops don't really care if they fight to death when they stay in the same cage. Hamsters will fight when they get older and more territorial. You think petshops will spend money to give each syrian a cage? Of course not.
3. Syrians can live 2+ years.
4. Syrians are solitary animals. How can it be bored? Please don't mix human emotions with syrian's. It's totally different.

We will suggest you try Pet Shack in Mentari Park, Sunway. You can also check out JTL's thread for started kits. Also JTL's syrian hamsters are quite tame.

Better to get from home breeder than those mass breeders that supply to big pet shops.

Syrians are recommended for first time hamster owner.

Yes that's BC. It's cats litter.

6L is too little. Get the biggest pack (35L) which can last about 2-3+ months and more economical. The big pack cost about RM90-100.

This post has been edited by blurjoey: Jul 1 2008, 11:29 PM

I think your finger got mealies smell and momo mistaken for food and bit you. Same goes my TimTim. Don't know how many times he have bitten me and sangels. Need to wash hand before handling him.

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Added on July 2, 2008, 12:31 pmThat's Pets Family. There have lots of syrians. Sometimes they have rare color syrians but need to look carefully. Last time we was there, there were 3 big tanks filled with syrians.

But do note that their syrians might not be as tamed as those in Pet Shack or from Nezu.

This post has been edited by blurjoey: Jul 2 2008, 01:00 PM

Yes they do because the metal got a taste when they bite on it. Also the wire will get rusted and that will be bad for the hamster's health in long term wire biting.

This post has been edited by blurjoey: Jul 2 2008, 04:27 PM

If you don't want to get the Wodent Wheel Jr, you can opt for the Sanko 21cm Silent Wheel which cost about RM10 cheaper. There is also those cheaper wheels but from past experience some will be noisy after some hammy marathons.

Remember that syrian hamsters requires at least 8" wheel or long term use of smaller wheels will have bad effect on their back and neck.

I don't think we can easily find satin or rex syrians in KL unless you are willing to hamster hunting around. Not just in KL only but around Malaysia.

But I think we can find them in Singapore but very troublesome to bring them back over. Smuggling in is dangerous for you and the hamster. So not really worth it. If declare, its very expensive plus the hamster might get quarantine in customs for some time.

Anyway the satin syrian that passo loco is selling, we are not sure is the fella is healthy or not. Also how old s/he is and all. So it's gamble to get the fella.

Here is the types of syrian hamster you can find in Singapore. How I wish can those syrians here in KL....

http://www.chipmon.com/syrians/

Taste like cardboard for the blueberry yoghurt treats. Crunchy though.

The strawberry yoghurt treats is a little sweet then no taste after...

Actually it is human consumable... You know those Pedigree can dog food also can eat if heated up. But I never try before.

This post has been edited by blurjoey: Jul 3 2008, 07:09 PM