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AmityvilleHams · 10-24-2019, 02:22 PM

I wouldn't bother with the Harry Hamster at all. It's popular, but that doesn't make it a high quality food by any means! It's loaded with pellets which offer no enrichment value unlike whole foods, and it contains artificial dyes(hidden, you have to really dig deep to even find mention of them but they're there). Straight Rodipet is the way to go, even if it is higher cost. Hamsters definitely don't eat a lot, so for someone with just one or two hamsters it's even less costly long term.

To put into perspective just how long 500 grams of food can last when being fed as the only main diet with no other foods being mixed in, the Rodipet serving size gives approximately 90 servings. In other words, that's roughly 3 months of food for a single robo. To break things down even further you have a food that's roughly 0.09 euros per serving, which is far from the crazy expense you might think you're getting into.

10-24-2019, 02:22 PM
AmityvilleHams PM Fluffy for custom title Join Date: Mar 2016 Posts: 4,545	Re: Roborovski hamster homemade food mix I wouldn't bother with the Harry Hamster at all. It's popular, but that doesn't make it a high quality food by any means! It's loaded with pellets which offer no enrichment value unlike whole foods, and it contains artificial dyes(hidden, you have to really dig deep to even find mention of them but they're there). Straight Rodipet is the way to go, even if it is higher cost. Hamsters definitely don't eat a lot, so for someone with just one or two hamsters it's even less costly long term. To put into perspective just how long 500 grams of food can last when being fed as the only main diet with no other foods being mixed in, the Rodipet serving size gives approximately 90 servings. In other words, that's roughly 3 months of food for a single robo. To break things down even further you have a food that's roughly 0.09 euros per serving, which is far from the crazy expense you might think you're getting into.