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11-13-2018, 02:44 PM
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Hamster Pup
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Reading, UK
Posts: 161
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Tofu has made her upgrade!
A couple months ago I posted about finishing my A Level product design coursework for which I chose to make a hamster cage. Last week I was finally able to bring it and all my other work home.
The cage had become damaged due to mishandling but I fixed it up and finished some bits that I hadn't had time for, disinfected it and washed it lots!
If I could redo anything to improve the cage I would have made the shelf inside removable as it's quite awkward to reach under there.
I'm not happy with how the toys are laid out at the minute but I tried to keep them in a similar layout to how they were before so as to not freak her out too much.
Anyways hopefully it's a nice 1st birthday/month present for her
PS. Apologies for the bad photo quality my phone camera is awful!
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11-13-2018, 11:54 PM
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Hamster Pup
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Posts: 56
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Re: Tofu has made her upgrade!
wow that is pretty, I love what you did on the non-shelf side, and the shape is great too
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11-14-2018, 12:15 AM
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Dwarf whisperer
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Wales UK
Posts: 24,789
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Re: Tofu has made her upgrade!
Good to see you got the cage home now!
It is generally best to try & put things in a similar place when you do an upgrade if you can but if it's not really working then it may be better to just rearrange things.
Have you got enough height to put the wheel on the shelf? If you could then you could put a lot more substrate in the base for burrowing & digging & it would probably make arranging other things in the base easier too.
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11-14-2018, 06:32 AM
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Hamster Pup
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Reading, UK
Posts: 161
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Re: Tofu has made her upgrade!
Sadly I think the shelf is just a tiny bit too high up for the wheel to fit on it.
I was originally planning on building a 25cm wheel into the cage itself (on the side of the storage area) but because of the time restraints and problems in manufacturing I didn't manage to and I didn't really consider putting a wheel on the shelf when designing (partly because I was initially designing for my Syrian). I might make a very tall/deep wheel stand so it is stable but I can put a lot of bedding in.
I'm also going to work on a better bottle holder I had a last minute realisation of "I have no way to put the bottle in!" because she was in a barred cage before.
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11-14-2018, 09:13 AM
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PM Fluffy for custom title
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Scotland
Posts: 3,467
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Re: Tofu has made her upgrade!
It does look great
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11-17-2018, 04:04 AM
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Hamster Warrior
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Posts: 15,575
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Re: Tofu has made her upgrade!
That does look incredible. How's she adapting to it?
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11-17-2018, 10:29 AM
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PM Fluffy for custom title
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Cornwall, UK
Posts: 1,109
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Re: Tofu has made her upgrade!
That’s amazing, I bet she’s enjoying it! What are the dimensions?
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11-17-2018, 08:03 PM
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Newborn Pup
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: Roslin
Posts: 29
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Re: Tofu has made her upgrade!
This is such a nice cage! You are going to have a very happy hammy. I wish I had that sort of skill, I'd be building cages all over the place good job!
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11-18-2018, 08:39 AM
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Hamster Pup
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Reading, UK
Posts: 161
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Re: Tofu has made her upgrade!
It's 90x39x36cm (l,w,h) I can't remember exactly how large the storage area the cage area is around the recommended size. If I made it again I might make it a little longer as it turns out I had more room to work with than I thought
She's been a bit more hidey than usual but I think she's settling in well. She's definitely eating well XD
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