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mangoandmimi · 11-09-2018, 02:08 PM

I think a photo of your setup would help as I can't really picture it. It seems to sound alright though if they're not sleeping in tubes or anything. Probably don't clean the tubes every other day especially if there's no pee in them, over cleaning cages doesn't do either of you any good. Just watch the hamsters can get through the tubes easily as unfortunately larger syrians can and do get stuck in normal sized tubes.

The joins also have to be very secure which sounds difficult to achieve with a bin cage, and cleaning the tube every other day might loosen it further. It does need to be 100% escape proof as hamsters have been known to escape out of external tubes!

11-09-2018, 02:08 PM
mangoandmimi Little Miss Tinytoes Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: UK Posts: 7,036	Re: Cage tubes I think a photo of your setup would help as I can't really picture it. It seems to sound alright though if they're not sleeping in tubes or anything. Probably don't clean the tubes every other day especially if there's no pee in them, over cleaning cages doesn't do either of you any good. Just watch the hamsters can get through the tubes easily as unfortunately larger syrians can and do get stuck in normal sized tubes. The joins also have to be very secure which sounds difficult to achieve with a bin cage, and cleaning the tube every other day might loosen it further. It does need to be 100% escape proof as hamsters have been known to escape out of external tubes!