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Shannonmcn · 07-10-2019, 05:24 AM

Please do not keep him in the bucket. I understand the bar chewing is bad but... no. You can lift a hamster heaven out into the next room if you need to sleep. He's going to damage his teeth with chronic bar chewing so as long as you're trying to find a solution as quickly as possible it's not a better solution to keep him in a bucket.

As for the detolf, my hams have all chewed on the wire mesh on the lid which is just as bad as bars. I moved one girl out of it and into a DIY Linnmon cage which is a much better solution. My boy is in the detolf now and has started chewing mesh so I'm going to look into a raised lid or something to try and fix the issue but honestly, just look at the Linnmon in the first instance. VanillaHamHam on youtube has a great video on it.

07-10-2019, 05:24 AM
Shannonmcn PM Fluffy for custom title Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland Posts: 3,192	Re: Ikea detolf for a syrian? Please do not keep him in the bucket. I understand the bar chewing is bad but... no. You can lift a hamster heaven out into the next room if you need to sleep. He's going to damage his teeth with chronic bar chewing so as long as you're trying to find a solution as quickly as possible it's not a better solution to keep him in a bucket. As for the detolf, my hams have all chewed on the wire mesh on the lid which is just as bad as bars. I moved one girl out of it and into a DIY Linnmon cage which is a much better solution. My boy is in the detolf now and has started chewing mesh so I'm going to look into a raised lid or something to try and fix the issue but honestly, just look at the Linnmon in the first instance. VanillaHamHam on youtube has a great video on it.