Luther
03-07-2011, 06:43 PM
Finally got round to connecting a bin to Gina's Habitrail Ovo Loft.
Although I was pleased with my Ovo pods when Gina was a baby, a recent growth spurt meant that the three pods were just not going to be good enough. I bought a couple of bins from Ikea and Gina ended up having time out in her playbins every night with a bigger Karlie Wonderland Wheel and a Trixie playground.
Anyhow, I managed to pick up some extra tubes and decided to connect everything up a little more permanently this weekend. Cue lots of cutting, drilling and tube building and this is what I ended up with......
Gina's main cage with her old house, food tray amd wheel removed (giving her lots of space). This is mainly her feeding area now as I usually lift out the hut and cardboard tray, sprinkle her feed onto the Megazorb, and then lay the cardboard tray on top and use the hut to weigh it down. She loves digging under the tray and tearing at the cardboard to get to her food (as you can see from the sorry state of the green card)
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll81/Luther999/Hamsters/IMAG0588.jpg
This is connected to a smaller pod (left) which she can run around in and has a different substarte just for variety (finacard?) She also has her little green "bed" pod which she loves to sleep in.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll81/Luther999/Hamsters/IMAG0590.jpg
Up above her bedroom, she has a blue pod filled with sand.... and to the left of that a second green pod filled with litter. I was quite lucky in that Gina quickly picked up on her toilet training and now only uses her toilet pod.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll81/Luther999/Hamsters/IMAG0591.jpg
To the left of all this is a set of tubes which goes into her new bin...
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll81/Luther999/Hamsters/IMAG0592.jpg
Bin layout. She now has a massive Karlie Wonderland Bogie Wheel (which fits her much better) and a Trixie Digging tray. I plan to had a 'conventional' water bottle in the near future just so she doesn;t have to run back to her cage for a drink from her Ovo water bottle.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll81/Luther999/Hamsters/IMAG0596.jpg
The overall setup. I cut the lid so that I could use half of it as a shelf to keep my baby dwarves in until I've made a second bin to move them into. (Two orange pods on top left).
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll81/Luther999/Hamsters/IMAG0586.jpg
:cool:
Although I was pleased with my Ovo pods when Gina was a baby, a recent growth spurt meant that the three pods were just not going to be good enough. I bought a couple of bins from Ikea and Gina ended up having time out in her playbins every night with a bigger Karlie Wonderland Wheel and a Trixie playground.
Anyhow, I managed to pick up some extra tubes and decided to connect everything up a little more permanently this weekend. Cue lots of cutting, drilling and tube building and this is what I ended up with......
Gina's main cage with her old house, food tray amd wheel removed (giving her lots of space). This is mainly her feeding area now as I usually lift out the hut and cardboard tray, sprinkle her feed onto the Megazorb, and then lay the cardboard tray on top and use the hut to weigh it down. She loves digging under the tray and tearing at the cardboard to get to her food (as you can see from the sorry state of the green card)
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll81/Luther999/Hamsters/IMAG0588.jpg
This is connected to a smaller pod (left) which she can run around in and has a different substarte just for variety (finacard?) She also has her little green "bed" pod which she loves to sleep in.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll81/Luther999/Hamsters/IMAG0590.jpg
Up above her bedroom, she has a blue pod filled with sand.... and to the left of that a second green pod filled with litter. I was quite lucky in that Gina quickly picked up on her toilet training and now only uses her toilet pod.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll81/Luther999/Hamsters/IMAG0591.jpg
To the left of all this is a set of tubes which goes into her new bin...
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll81/Luther999/Hamsters/IMAG0592.jpg
Bin layout. She now has a massive Karlie Wonderland Bogie Wheel (which fits her much better) and a Trixie Digging tray. I plan to had a 'conventional' water bottle in the near future just so she doesn;t have to run back to her cage for a drink from her Ovo water bottle.
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll81/Luther999/Hamsters/IMAG0596.jpg
The overall setup. I cut the lid so that I could use half of it as a shelf to keep my baby dwarves in until I've made a second bin to move them into. (Two orange pods on top left).
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll81/Luther999/Hamsters/IMAG0586.jpg
:cool: