Sooooo... I just caught romeo trying to chew his way through the silicone to Tiki.
Luckily I reacted to a sound I couldn't recognize straight away, which turned out to be romeo chewing and pulling silicone.
What do I do?
It's a glass wall between them, so could it just be visual and how do I go about covering it.
If not, what then? Do I need to relocate him?
He is a Syrian male trying to get to a baby dwarf hybrid female. There is no way that can end well.
That is my thought as well. My boyfriend thinks I'm overreacting.
My immediate plan was to put Tiki in a bin to eliminate the threat to her, but he wouldn't let me. He thinks it is too much stress on the hamsters. Instead I am now stuck in guard mode, because as soon as the room goes dark and quiet romeo starts up again.
Long term, the solution might be to move romeo to the non divided detolf and let Zelda neighbor with Tiki. Another dwarf next door would hopefully be much less risk. But that will be a hard sell too.
Now he's got the idea into his head I doubt just covering the glass would put him off, to be safe I would move one of them out.
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I have seen him do it now without Tiki visible so that's definitely not relevant anymore. Unless it is simply a question of wanting the space on the other side.
Even if she's not visible he knows she's there now & things like this often become a habit quite quickly so there probably doesn't need to be an obvious reason that you can see all the time now he's started on it.
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He does look quite determined!
I really think it's probably gone beyond wondering about the cause, I would be concerned for safety & just split them up now if it was me.
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