Question: How would you spot clean in a deep substrate if the hamster pees on the bottom of his burrows? Frequency recommendations? Every spot clean would mess up his burrows
Situation:
I noted my Winter White likes to burrow so I'm trying 7-8 inches aspen in my 40 gallon breeder. My issue is regarding spot cleaning. I'm approaching 3 months of learning my hamster and the only area I've learned he urinates is deep in his sleeping nests. Just did my 2nd cage cleaning yesterday and slide the cage out to look at the glass bottom and there is about a 2 inch diameter yellow spot on the bottom glass. Last clean I put 4 inches substrate in and just did a nest clean about weekly, but it gets more difficult with 7-8 inches.
Maybe there is nothing complicated about this and it's just "up to me" when I want to destroy the burrows for a spot clean. Not sure how much help replacing bedding is though if a lot of the urine is on the bottom glass.