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Pebbles82 · 03-08-2019, 05:08 AM

Definitely freeze any hamster mix you have left - for a week. Just get a new bag and hope that is ok for a week while the rest is freezing then swap them round - ie put the new bag in the freezer and take the old one out. The food is defrosted in a couple of hours.

They do look a bit like weavils so a cage clean should do the trick. Might be an idea to bake any wood items in the oven. I think 100 degrees is recommended - not so hot as they would burn but hot enough to kill bugs. Not sure for how long. If there are weavils there may be moth eggs too and they are too tiny to see- you don’t want those hatching out. A week in the freezer kills moth eggs. As does baking.

03-08-2019, 05:08 AM
Pebbles82 Hamster Antics Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 23,533	Re: Help! Tiny bugs in Hamster's food Definitely freeze any hamster mix you have left - for a week. Just get a new bag and hope that is ok for a week while the rest is freezing then swap them round - ie put the new bag in the freezer and take the old one out. The food is defrosted in a couple of hours. They do look a bit like weavils so a cage clean should do the trick. Might be an idea to bake any wood items in the oven. I think 100 degrees is recommended - not so hot as they would burn but hot enough to kill bugs. Not sure for how long. If there are weavils there may be moth eggs too and they are too tiny to see- you don’t want those hatching out. A week in the freezer kills moth eggs. As does baking.