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Old 11-13-2018, 02:44 PM   #1
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Talking 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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Old 11-13-2018, 11:54 PM   #2
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wow that is pretty, I love what you did on the non-shelf side, and the shape is great too
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Old 11-14-2018, 12:15 AM   #3
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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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Old 11-14-2018, 06:32 AM   #4
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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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Old 11-14-2018, 09:13 AM   #5
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It does look great
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Old 11-17-2018, 04:04 AM   #6
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That does look incredible. How's she adapting to it?
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Old 11-17-2018, 10:29 AM   #7
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That’s amazing, I bet she’s enjoying it! What are the dimensions?
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Old 11-17-2018, 08:03 PM   #8
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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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Old 11-18-2018, 08:39 AM   #9
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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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