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Old 11-10-2017, 06:55 PM   #1
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Question when should i clean certain things?

quick question: when should i clean the sand, the houses, the tubes, and the cage?

im new to owning hamsters and i have a 9-10 week old male syrian, so im not sure when to clean different things. he seems to like putting food and going to the toilet in his sand, so im probably going to clean that tommorow and put some more food in case im disturbing a horde.
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Old 11-10-2017, 07:07 PM   #2
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Default Re: when should i clean certain things?

also when should i replace horded/left behind food
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Old 11-10-2017, 10:45 PM   #3
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Default Re: when should i clean certain things?

If he's peeing in the sand then you can remove any damp clumps daily & you shouldn't need to clean the whole thing very often, if he's putting his food in the sand then just leave it there.

It's normal for them to have a hoard somewhere & as long as he doesn't take any fresh wet food & try to stash that then you can just leave it alone.

Just spot clean the cage, removing any pee for at least a few weeks, you shouldn't need to do a full cage clean ever really unless you have a very small cage, you can just clean one part of the cage every few weeks.
Unless he's peeing in his nest then leave that alone, if you do have to clean it after a few weeks then always put back some of the old nest material.
Tubes shouldn't need cleaning often if at all.
You don't need to do that much cleaning with hams & cleaning which takes away their scent can be quite stressful so particularly with a young new ham the less you can do the better.
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Old 11-11-2017, 03:04 AM   #4
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Default Re: when should i clean certain things?

Pee spots should be cleaned every other day.
Houses should be cleaned when they start to smell heavily.
Tubes should also be cleaned when they start to smell heavily.
It depends how big the cage is on when to clean it, I would love to see a picture of the cage to see how big it is.
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Old 11-11-2017, 04:24 AM   #5
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Default Re: when should i clean certain things?

thanks, guys! i was given lots of substrate with his smell on it when i adopted him so i dont think that will be a problem, but i will do some spot cleaning and sniff around. oh, and the cage is pretty standard size- around 50 x 80 x 35
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