Hamster cage bedding materials

[Zhanar]

Hello! My twins have asked a hamster for their 13th birthday and I have started preparing a nice home for our new family extension. Bought a cage with a house, a wheel, tunnels and different bedding materials, but cannot remember explanations I got at the shop why I need 2 and how to use them. Both of them are wood chips, only one is in bigger size and the other one is in smaller with Premium descriptor. Can someone advice?

 

[Maz]

Hello and welcome Which country are you in? The second bag looks like a bale of paper bedding and the first one looks maybe like hemp? Pet stores don't always give the best advice so ask anything you want!

Is this for a Syrian hamster or a dwarf hamster, and what type of cage is it? It isn't really necessary to use two different beddings/substrates in the entire cage, but it can be good to have a couple of different substrates in dig boxes, for environment variety. For the main bedding, the main thing is that it is a safe one and ideally one that will hold tunnels and burrows in shape, as hamsters like to dig.