One thing to know. Never ever get a male and female pair if you are not ready for the hamster to have babies. There is a lot of things to do when they are pregnant.

Please get same sex pair and also siblings to avoid fights.

WW can be tamed but not as easy as syrians. Heard that WW cannot eat fruits or too sugary veges as they are diabetic.

Think about the outcome before thinking of breeding them. You will need to separate the male and female after mating. They will fight if you don't separate.

You will need another tank for that. Then when the babies are born you will need to feed them. Then after 1+ month you need to separate by sex the babies into different tanks. If they breed then it will be called in-breeding (incest to humans) which cause genetic defects and abnormal babies.

There are more information. Please read up before breeding them as there is a lot of things to do. It's not that simple.

Males or females also same. Only that females have heat (same like woman having period) every 4 days.

You have to monitor them as they will play fight. If too serious then have to separate also.

You can feed them mealworms but gut the mealworms first with veges, dog food, etc before feeding to your hamster. The mealworms were feed with newspaper. This way the hamster will get better nutrition.

You can try feeding them till they don't want to eat no more then you will know how many they can eat.

my hamsters made a backdoor to their house...  

yeah they bite it... why perfect??..

i thought feeding hamster with 3-4 mealworms a day is ok? some of the hamster owners here do that...

@cheesebet: i think your hamster needs time to know that the worm is edible, try to cut off the head of the worm, hopefully when your hamster can smell the 'juice', she will attempt to eat it... ganbatte ne!

Feeding hamster with sunflower seed, corn, nuts already make them cut to 1-2yrs live, if your still practise feeding them mealworm, cut their live even shorter.

the big ones are syrians...and must never be kept together.

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Added on March 30, 2009, 1:31 pm
well,uh....i had the same prob too...smoe was very shy and was reluctant to come onto my hands and always hides away...
perhaps,try placing some delicious treats like broccoli,sunflower seeds,tofu,etc on your hands and see if he comes onto it...practise this everyday...and also,try whispering to him so that he can get used to your voice...

Why in petshop the syrian live so peace ah?

why don't you try tempting her with food....just place the food in front of him/her...then move the food untill the cage door and untill he/she comes out onto your hands.....

why don't you try tempting her with food....just place the food in front of him/her...then move the food untill the cage door and untill he/she comes out onto your hands.....