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Old 05-31-2017, 05:05 PM   #1
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Question How long doe your hammie run in its wheel at night?

Emeralda's been running for two hours now,and is still going strong. Every now and again she stops, takes a look around, then continues running.
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Old 05-31-2017, 06:06 PM   #2
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My ham Duncan runs for about 3ish hours a night. From 10-1:00

Kopi runs for much longer. She runs from 12-6:00 (I leave my house then so she could go even longer than that!)

The amount of time my hamsters spent on their wheels varied by individual I'd say Esmeralda sounds like she's going to be pretty fit after her run lol!
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Old 06-01-2017, 03:04 AM   #3
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My ham Duncan runs for about 3ish hours a night. From 10-1:00

Kopi runs for much longer. She runs from 12-6:00 (I leave my house then so she could go even longer than that!)

The amount of time my hamsters spent on their wheels varied by individual I'd say Esmeralda sounds like she's going to be pretty fit after her run lol!
No wonder they sleep all day! She was still at it at 4am, when I went to bed. Thanks for answering.
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Old 06-01-2017, 05:14 AM   #4
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I have no idea lol. The wheel is silent! I think they do tend to stop and mooch around and groom sometimes, and Charlie used to have a long nap in the early hours then get up again. It might depend how much else there is to do in the cage. What cage is she in?
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Old 06-01-2017, 07:13 AM   #5
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I'm actually not sure. Mushu used to run a lot more. Of course, now he has his silent Runner, it's difficult to tell without going into the room, because I can't actually hear it. But, when I do go in to check, he is now less often on his wheel and more often climbing around his cage. Possibly, he is less energetic now he is older. Or, maybe he has changed his schedule so that he turns later at night. It's hard to determine without actually having a camera on him!
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Old 06-01-2017, 08:32 AM   #6
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I have no idea lol. The wheel is silent! I think they do tend to stop and mooch around and groom sometimes, and Charlie used to have a long nap in the early hours then get up again. It might depend how much else there is to do in the cage. What cage is she in?
She has two houses, a half coconut, three bendy bridge hideouts, a platform with a bridge to her deep substrate area, another long bendy bridge as a viewing platform (for her) at the front near the mesh, a 'preening' house, a sand bath and a honey & seed chew on her mesh.

She's in the two large transparent storage bins, connected by a 9" sewer pipe. I found this in the Syrian Car Guide pdf that Drago kindly links to:

" Floor space is defined as the set amount of space a hamster can run around in without having to slow down or change motions"

With the 9" sewer pipe she doesn't even notice. She goes straight through, the same as under the large bendy bridges. Doesn't duck, doesn't stop either.

She checks everything out every time she wakes up, but it's during her night-time excursion, when the red light is on, that she runs, and runs, and runs.
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Old 06-01-2017, 08:34 AM   #7
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It sounds like she has plenty to do then
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Old 06-01-2017, 10:02 AM   #8
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I don't know to be honest, because usually I'm sleeping when he is out and about, but the few times that I've seen him, he runs for a while, comes out, takes a quick run around the cage, comes back to the wheel, keeps running for a while, and he comes out again and repeats the same over and over again, maybe changing the running route, but he does more or less the same. Sometimes he stops for a groom too.

I think that it's normal that they run for long periods of time, yep, no wonder why then we barely see them.
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Old 06-01-2017, 10:10 AM   #9
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I have no idea either, mine are usually all running when I go to bed, if I wake in the night the wheels are going & when I get up at least three of the four are running, I guess they must take a break at some point
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Old 06-01-2017, 04:17 PM   #10
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Khali is usually awake between 8 -9pm and is straight in the wheel. She usually happily runs for 3 hours, with breaks for playtime with me and little breaks. I usually go to bed between 11 and 11.30pm and she heads back to her nest to take a power nap between 11 and 12. She will run again on her wheel again but not with as much energy. She is in the living room, so I dont know how much time after midnight she runs for , but I know from the few times ive slept on the sofa recently that she doesnt run all night and seems to have another power nap between around 3-4am and then potters about doing whatever she does. She usually goes to sleep about 7-8am. So its seems she burns most of her energy right at the start and gets her second wind after a power nap.
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