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Sorry for the photo dump! Shelby is finally in her new (hopefully unchewable) digs! The comments on here were invaluable in terms of how to set up a 3.0 enclosure so thanks for that! It’s by no means perfect but she’s in (as of last night) and adjustments can be made as and when like with all enclosures. I have a couple of videos but am not nearly tech savvy enough to be able to turn them into URLs to upload. I didn’t realise they wouldn’t just upload like a picture. A couple of things I was saying in the video were:
1. It really isn’t big enough - haha! Still looks so cluttered and don’t have all her stuff in so will rotate enrichment toys etc. It looked huge empty but is very easy to fill!
2. I really wanted at least 9 inches of bedding yet despite 3 bags of substrate (including a 70l Bucatstate and 50l Carefresh, it still probably needed a 4th bag. It’s prob 6inches on average at the moment but she’s been moving it around so it’s now higher and lower in certain places. It would be a pain to remove top layer of stuff to add extra but I can see myself doing it as I want to make the most of the depth! As it stands, she has been underground constantly and I’ve compacted it where I can so she can burrow. Only thing is she is unfindable, haha!
3. The large platforms on Amazon were 7inches where I really would have liked 9inches for them as well. First one I ordered was too small (front left) but I used it anyway thinking it would do for now and she’s actually liking it as it’s giving her access to underneath her house platform where I have hidden one of her large tunnels. It probably looks chaotic but I did spend hours on it I swear!
4. This really is the mansion of hamster cages - so glad we invested as she will be so happy in here!
1. It really isn’t big enough - haha! Still looks so cluttered and don’t have all her stuff in so will rotate enrichment toys etc. It looked huge empty but is very easy to fill!
2. I really wanted at least 9 inches of bedding yet despite 3 bags of substrate (including a 70l Bucatstate and 50l Carefresh, it still probably needed a 4th bag. It’s prob 6inches on average at the moment but she’s been moving it around so it’s now higher and lower in certain places. It would be a pain to remove top layer of stuff to add extra but I can see myself doing it as I want to make the most of the depth! As it stands, she has been underground constantly and I’ve compacted it where I can so she can burrow. Only thing is she is unfindable, haha!
3. The large platforms on Amazon were 7inches where I really would have liked 9inches for them as well. First one I ordered was too small (front left) but I used it anyway thinking it would do for now and she’s actually liking it as it’s giving her access to underneath her house platform where I have hidden one of her large tunnels. It probably looks chaotic but I did spend hours on it I swear!
4. This really is the mansion of hamster cages - so glad we invested as she will be so happy in here!
Until you need to clean a third end of the cage.
xx