Clean out of bedding?

[Corbeens]

Hi! I haven't been posting as much recently as I've gotten past all of my beginner questions and such, but I would love any opinions on this as possible. My dwarves are mostly on c&c bedding (with around 1/3 or more of the cage sand as they are robos) and they pee so little i've only seen physical evidence of it twice, once when it was in the sand and once when one was out in the playpen. Because of this, I was wondering how often I should clean the burrowing portion of the cage. The main problem is the poop, but that seems to settle out to the bottom of the cage anyways, so if I were to clean all of that out can I take out less of the bedding? I have no problem taking out the 2/3 a month but I was just wondering how efficient that is as it looks as fresh as new bedding even after that time.

[Pebbles82]

When I had a robo I used to clean half the cage at a time. So one half always stayed familiar and familiar smelling and he had time to adjust to the new half. He had two burrows - one in each half and would move to one when I cleaned the other side and vice versa I always found his burrows clean and dry so tried to leave them in tact. He never pee'd in them.

I'd go about 2 to 3 months, clean the left half of the substrate. Wait 2 or 3 weeks and then clean the right half. Then leave it another couple of months. They pee so little and I reckon most of it evaporates!

[Ria P]

First time i cleaned my Robo's tank was after three months but realized during the process that it hadn't been necessary so now i only check/clean sections of his tank every 2/3 months. He doesn't seem to smell at all and his pee seems to evaporate so its hard to locate any areas that actually need cleaning.