What cages do you prefer? - Page 2

lil_panda · 03-01-2005, 04:38 PM

Honey (my only hamster, and my first) lives in a bin from Walmart. The lid of the bin is ventalated, as well as some of the side. The bin I got her is pretty shallow so I'm planning on adding an extension.

SnuggleHam · 03-01-2005, 04:41 PM

gotta love those bin cages!

**babyboos** · 03-01-2005, 05:12 PM

Hi there Lil-Panda

Do you have any pictures of Honey's enclosure?

peanut25 · 03-05-2005, 08:53 AM

Bear started out with a ten gallon tank with a tank topper and it seemed that he kept on hurting himself. I didn't want to take the topper off and ruin all the room that he had so I upgraded his home to 30 gallons. This allows him to have plenty of room for everything plus he comes out and plays with me at night. He usually gets up after 9. I wish I was able to sleep like them but my clock in my head won't let me sleep past 6 no matter how late I go to sleep.

**babyboos** · 03-05-2005, 03:01 PM

I often think I was designed to be a hamster - sleep all day, play all night

SnuggleHam · 03-05-2005, 04:22 PM

I finally got my bin cage finished except a gerbil ended up in it. I think they are great and I really love mine, tons of room in there! I’m going to add a small second level soon too.

My Roborovskis are in a 29 gallon tank that I think works great! and has plenty of room, more then enough for their tiny bodies.

I think that most cages sold in pet stores are generally to small for the rodent its designed for, and they charge allot to!!

**babyboos** · 03-05-2005, 04:29 PM

Oh wow Candace it looks great I am SO impressed

Wonder how it will stand up to Orlando the gerbil's teeth

Great locking lid

I really do need to get more adventurous with my bins - all mine have is a wire mesh inserted roof at the moment...

I really like the tank for the Roborovski Dwarves too - loads of space and the water bottle holder is neat. Did you make it or buy it

SnuggleHam · 03-05-2005, 04:35 PM

Thanks!! I’m really pleased with the bin.. When I was watching them in the cage at the store one started chewing the bars of the wheel and I remembered how much of little chewers they were.. Their igloo in the pet store cages was all chewed up so I’m wondering how the bin cage will fare to.

I guess Ill find out lol.

The water bottle I bought, you can bend it to hang over tanks, but it turned out my 29 gallon was to high so I ended up taping it on and also using Velcro to help it hold. The hams cant reach the tape its to high, they have a hard enough time crawling into their food bowl LOL!!

hammydude · 03-05-2005, 05:21 PM

That's a great looking bin Candace! I too agree that the store bought cages are too small, So in the next week or 2 I'm going to start making a bin for Biscuits.

SnuggleHam · 03-05-2005, 06:54 PM

Thats great! I got mine from walmart, be sure to make sure it long and deep enough and preferably with the locking handles like mine.

Afishcalledwanda posted an article about how she makes her bin on HamsterCentral here http://www.hamstercentral.com/articles.htm

I plan on adding one of my own soon to the articles page, just talking about how I made mine