Nice mink banded you have there. Good for her to have owner like you. Take good care of her.

Midvalley don't have. Better buy suitable wheel for her as she can grow really well if you feed her with good food. Get Wodent wheel or Sanko wheel for her. Wodent can get from PS and Sanko can get in PLC Sunway Pyramid. Spend a bit more at the first time for a good wheel rather than keep buying cheap wheel. You can sleep well with this wheels. My extra wheel need to keep first in case I have more hamsters coming up.

I don't think Nezu will get hamster from those pet shop as she is very picky and particular on her pets one.

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Added on July 7, 2009, 9:35 pmSorry to heard about Tiny.

We also dunno whether JackJack is 'contributing' or not as he is an old man now. But we'll try again and again. Gestation period for Syrians is 15-17 days, now is already almost 1 month already, don't think they will produce anything this time. They looks like pregnant as they really gain weight within a week and more weight the 2nd week, but nothing is out. Just worried they can't deliver the babies and the contents reabsorb back to their body although its not harmful for them, but no babies...


This post has been edited by sangels: Jul 7 2009, 09:35 PM

I'm sure newbie also can do some reading and look at some pictures and get to know about different species. Just like no one will call a zebra as a house. (do let me know if there's people like this then I might change my concept of 'newbie')

Oops... typo. I mean "Horse".... I'm sure you know what I mean.

Memory of JackJack the Cinnamon banded long hair boy.

Dear JackJack,

I'm so sorry I'm not being around when you taking your last breath but I know you are a brave boy and you'll walking across the rainbow bridge looking back to us with a smile on your face. We want to thank you for giving us great time and lots of good memories since you came to our family. You are the first syrian I've ever had, your cuteness make us fall in love with syrians and therefore we started to get crazy getting more and more members into our family. You are just so tame and never ever bite anyone in your whole life no matter who carry you or touch you. I've so many pictures flashing back on my mind right now. I know we gonna miss you but we happy and glad that you are not suffer and you are leaving us in your dreams. Please take care of yourself and tell the other friends who are waiting for you at the other half of the rainbow bridge, "I miss them, take good care till we meet again." I promise I'll stop crying and you promise me you'll be good over there, ok?

Good bye and R.I.P, my JackJack boy!

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This post has been edited by sangels: Jul 11 2009, 12:54 AM

From what I've learn from a sifu to make my syrians braver, take out everything especially hideout and let them be in the tank. You can put your hand inside to let it get used to your smell, or your can put your head inside the tank when you talk to it so that it can recognize your voice and won't afraid of noise. My hamster tamer after I do this for 1 week. But if your hamster is a new comer, let it be alone for about 3-5 days before start taming to avoid stress it out. Hope this will help.

Take out the wheel also. Just left food and water bottle. Take everything out when you are around in the house. Let him get used to people and noise to make him brave. Good luck to you.

Beware of feeding special food for your small animal. Durians contain very high sugar level as it will not a good choice of food for them.

Are u using bar cage? It can bleed due to the biting of the bar cage as their nose is stuck in between the bars when they are biting the bars and it traumatized their nose.

1) Buy ants powder to put nearby outside the cage.

2) Elevate ur cage and put Vaseline around the thing that u use to elevate ur cage. This is to cover up the scent and make the path oily for the ants so that they can't reach the cage.

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Added on July 17, 2009, 6:49 pmAnything she might be biting? Like the water bottle holes, the corners of the tank. My syrians did that before.

This post has been edited by sangels: Jul 17 2009, 06:49 PM

If its already dried up, nothing much to worry about then. Just check the corners see if there's any scratched marks. They'll try to bite and bite even there's nothing for them to bite.

I don't think you need to worry about the size of the syrian as they can hardly grow big cos there's no space for them to grow. They can hardly walk freely inside the cage also even with 1 of it inside, what to say with 2 of it?

You no need to imagine that as they will fight and you'll see it. Maybe with that, one of them have no chance to grow big also.

p/s: Maybe you are someone who are very positive ans love to smile or laugh, but I think you should be serious when you are dealing with something alive cos it is a LIFE, nothing there is so funny till you wanna LOL (Laugh Out Loud).

Wet tail can be very contagious, you must be putting them together before your first hammy died. That's why now the other also have the same thing. They can died within 24 hours without treatment for wet tail. If you wanna save your hammy, go now to the vet with your hammy before it's too late.