Problems with sand for hamster

[tweetsybird2]

Hi guys,
So I have a problem:
My hamster loves bathing in her sand, but whenever she bathes, she ends up kicking out a lot of sand, which then gets all over the bedding. Therefore, I end up having to replace a lot of bedding daily. I tried to give her less sand, but it still ends up all over the bedding. Any ideas how I can prevent the sand from getting all over the place?

[POLAR WHITES]

I wouldn't worry about the sand getting on the bedding its normal and I wouldn't replace the bedding the sand has gotten on to, I find my hamster kick their sand around also, I just leave it until cage clean, the sand that she wees on should clump together and it will only be the clean sand getting spread around which wont hurt her,

[velma]

What do you use for a sand bath? For my Syrian, for her toilet corner, I have a large jar that I try & have tilted up (the biscuit jars that you can lay on the side) to stop quite as much getting kicked out. My little robo just has a fairly shallow plastic dish which he kicks sand out the back of, for his sand bath but that just gets mixed up in the bedding & usually just drops through to the bottom of the cage.

[Thin Lizzy]

Maybe you need to use something with high sides on it to stop the sand flying out.
Velma uses a biscuit jar, which sounds ideal.

[cypher]

I agree there's no need to worry about sand going everywhere, it tends to fall to the bottom under the substrate & won't cause a problem.
There are quite a few things you could try using though, glass jars work well for a lot of hams, one of mine has a salt pig which works well & another has a bird bath which is pretty good at containing more of the sand too, I got it from zooplus Bird Bath Hagen Vision - Great deals at zooplus

[Rempanda]

I have two sand areas for my hamster, she has a small ceramic dish which she uses as her toilet and then a large area that is sectioned off by a medium bendy bridge which she digs in and kicks about. The bridge is great at stopping the sand from getting out.

I would recommend keeping the sand despite him kicking it out as he obviously enjoys it.

Don't worry about it going onto the substrate, it's perfectly safe to be mixed in