Are these the right silent spinners? - Page 2

**Hamtastic** · 01-25-2012, 11:07 AM

In my personal experiences, my robos like larger sized wheels more. They hated the 4.5" spinners and absolutely loved 8" Jr. Wodent Wheels. The way I could tell was how much they ran on each wheel and spent time in it. Viola hasn't had a Jr. Wheel to compare, so she doesn't know the difference and is happy in her 14.5cm Karlie wheel. I wouldn't go smaller for her, as she's already 33g on average and I feel like if she's trying to satisfy her natural urge to run, having a more "road like" straighter surface feels better, rather than a climbing exercise on a high curvature small wheel. That's how I rationalized it for myself anyway when I decided to not use 4.5" wheels for any of my hamsters and set 5.5" as the minimum.

racinghamster · 01-26-2012, 02:12 AM

In my experience, breeders and pet keepers are two different mindsets. Especially where mice are concerned. Some mouse breeders don`t even give their mice wheels and keep them in breeding tubs at all times. Pet mouse keepers keep mice in rat cages with bigger wheels, so maybe that`s where the difference lies, I don`t know.

As far as I`m concerned, the mini wheels shouldn`t even be made because they are too small. The Regular silent spinner should be the smallest in my opinion.

Gizmodo ^_^ · 01-26-2012, 04:25 AM

Pip my robo has the 4.5 when he was a baby, but it was soon apparent that it was too small
He now has a 5.5, which seems the perfect middle for him

racinghamster · 01-26-2012, 06:44 AM

I admit I did use the mini silent spinners in the past but like you Gizmodo, I realised they were very resptrictive.

**newham** · 01-26-2012, 07:27 AM

got robo's and dwarves on those wheels and they are fantastic

Mikayla · 01-26-2012, 07:30 AM

I just thought I'd mention, my robos are very small and stay around 25-30 grams :P

Hammie.A · 01-26-2012, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by MMMTDF

I just thought I'd mention, my robos are very small and stay around 25-30 grams :P

Same. all of mine are tiny !

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Mikayla · 01-26-2012, 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by u-look-like-a-hamster

Same. all of mine are tiny !

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They prefer their little ones but they can run on huuuuuuge ones. Phoebe took a spin in Percy's Senior Wodent wheel once xD

FluffNoodle · 02-05-2012, 10:34 AM

jabba has a 6.5 purple one and either he doesnt use it or its that quiet i dont notice lol