Cornelius' Cage 2025/ Rate My Enclosure

[strawberrypoo]

As you know, I got Cornelius 8/29/2025; roughly two weeks ago. These pictures below are of his enclosure! I have a Bucastate 2.0 100cm. Aspen and Carefresh white bedding. A 10-inch Nitengal Wheel and their stands. Nitengal's multichambered hutch. Their log burrow/hide. A couple of chews. He has a mostly-chewed alligator whimzee in his hutch. A mushroom house. A lot of sprays. A bin full of coconut fiber for him to dig in. A few sprinkles of Nitengal's forest bedding for more substrate. He also has a sand bath next to his mushroom house. He LOVES to kick sand everywhere. He has two water sources. One in his dish and the other in the mushroom stand.
I asked the subreddit if its good and they gave me the clear, but what do you guys think? Does Cornelius have a good home? Or, how would you rate this enclosure out of ten?

 

[Maz]

It looks amazing A lovely home for him. You might like to add it to this thread as well. Where we ask people to show their cage set ups It's a good resource for ideas for others looking through.

Show us your cages 2023 onwards

So sorry to hear you lost Louet x The cage looks amazing! Thank you. Things have moved on a bit since I did the original design. A cage that big for dwarf hamsters 10yr ago was unusual, now it seems standard, which is lovely to see. And I’m discovering the wonderful world of ‘sprays’.

www.thehamsterforum.com

 

[Socks' Mum]

Cornelius has a lovely home ❤

 

[ilguy]

What are the dimensions of it? It does look great, I happen to have the same, hide, wheel, and dish for my little guy. You did a great job setting it up and keeping the bedding at a good height by the platforms.

I do recommend moving the water dish closer to the middle of the night angel hide. He will knock that off, give him space to get to it from all sides and it will be great

 

[Maz]

Well spotted ilguy I would actually put a water dish in the back corner of the hide if possible - then it can't get knocked over or fallen in easily or kicked around.

 

[strawberrypoo]

It looks amazing A lovely home for him. You might like to add it to this thread as well. Where we ask people to show their cage set ups It's a good resource for ideas for others looking through.

Show us your cages 2023 onwards

So sorry to hear you lost Louet x The cage looks amazing! Thank you. Things have moved on a bit since I did the original design. A cage that big for dwarf hamsters 10yr ago was unusual, now it seems standard, which is lovely to see. And I’m discovering the wonderful world of ‘sprays’.

www.thehamsterforum.com

Thank you! I definitely will check that thread out! :3

 

[strawberrypoo]

What are the dimensions of it? It does look great, I happen to have the same, hide, wheel, and dish for my little guy. You did a great job setting it up and keeping the bedding at a good height by the platforms.

I do recommend moving the water dish closer to the middle of the night angel hide. He will knock that off, give him space to get to it from all sides and it will be great

Cornelius has a lovely home

What are the dimensions of it? It does look great, I happen to have the same, hide, wheel, and dish for my little guy. You did a great job setting it up and keeping the bedding at a good height by the platforms.

I do recommend moving the water dish closer to the middle of the night angel hide. He will knock that off, give him space to get to it from all sides and it will be great

I just looked on Bucatstate's website: The 100 cm one is 69.3 gallons: 39.3 L x 19.7 W x 20.6 H inches/ 100cm *50cm *52.5 cm, with 776 square inches of floorspace. Also, thank you for the compliments! I did move his water dish. I switched it out with his pumpkin chew. Now his water dish is right by his water bottle.

 

[ilguy]

I just looked on Bucatstate's website: The 100 cm one is 69.3 gallons: 39.3 L x 19.7 W x 20.6 H inches/ 100cm *50cm *52.5 cm, with 776 square inches of floorspace. Also, thank you for the compliments! I did move his water dish. I switched it out with his pumpkin chew. Now his water dish is right by his water bottle.

Awesome, he should be happy in his enclosure