Sand bath substrates - Page 2

hammydude · 03-18-2005, 06:04 PM

As soon as I get Biscuits his bin cage I plan on giving him a sand bath/potty. He dosen't have one now simiply because his crittertrail 2 dosen't have enough room.

When I do start I will use childrens play sand until I can go to a pet store and get some chinchilla sand. By the way, I think that this is very good thread/debate Emma.

Emma · 03-18-2005, 06:29 PM

The pasta jars I meant are square sided - they're the posh Bertolli ones that are my favourites!!!

Do you use chinchilla sand or play sand Babyboos?

**babyboos** · 03-18-2005, 07:15 PM

I use Charlie Chinchilla Sand and SuperPet small animals litter balls currently. I spoke a bit about potties/sand baths recently in this Section - check it out here: Does your hamster drive you potty?

I personally think children's play sand is too gritty/large and coarse to really get into the coat of Long-haired hamsters, and my large container of Charlie Chinchilla Sand lasts for ages, definitely less than £1 per week - and I have a lot of hamsters, and baths to fill

Coco1 · 03-22-2005, 08:56 AM

Mmmmm Bertolli pasta sauces ....

Emma · 03-25-2005, 03:05 AM

Does anyone know a UK online pet shop that sells chinchilla sand? All I find everywhere in real-life shops and online is dust, dust, dust.

SnuggleHam · 03-25-2005, 06:21 AM

Cant your order is from someplace in the US? shipping might be a bit more though.....

carefresh · 03-25-2005, 06:24 AM

This one is actually from PETsMART. Below is a link to the page with Chinchilla sand. I don't know if it's good, but I just wanted to give one that may be of help.

LINK HERE

SnuggleHam · 03-25-2005, 06:40 AM

Carefresh that's actually the very sand that I use for my sand baths and it seems great to me! it comes with 5x140 gram packets of sand. I find one packet is enought to fill up two large sand baths that I use for my gerbils and Syrian.

I usually buy it when I make a trip down to a PETsMART. This was lasting me a while until I ended up with two new gerbils and a Syrian hamster :P

If they use it as a potty you need to change it more.

Emma · 03-25-2005, 08:11 AM

Shipping from the US seems a bit excessive when I know there's at least one brand made in this country, I just can't find it stocked in any of the local shops!

SnuggleHam · 03-25-2005, 08:13 AM

Well maybe the stuff you already had is the same as Chinchilla sand as you were saying. If it's grittier but hasn’t caused you problems I don’t see why you should stop using it?

Maybe you can do a search on eBay... eBay is always a good place to look for stuff.