so today we are moving Waddles my Chinese hamster into Mabel's old enclosure because
it's going to be a significant cage upgrade for him his current cage has 850 square inches
of floor space whereas this cage has 1152 square inches so
let's get the switchin'
I'm gonna start with where I want to
place in the wheel
this is a 12 inch silent Runner so
I'm gonna give this to him
next let's put the hideout in
this is a multi-chamber hide
and I think I'm gonna keep It kind of at a lower
height
with our stilts here
it's important that you have things with stilts on them especially if they are heavy because hamsters are burrowing animals
so if they decide to grow underneath it
it's not going to collapse and squish them
I think like that
now for the other platforms
here we have his sand bath, he gets a nice big sand bath
he loves his sand bath
that especially needs to go on a silt because this is super heavy
I think that's good for now for all of these stilted items let's start adding in some of the bedding
so I of course had to buy some more bedding but I'm also going to be using his old bedding from his enclosure
this is the full cheeks brown paper budding
as well as I'm going to be using the
Niteangel Aspen shavings
there's one
there's two
don't forget to compress your bedding when you're adding it in
if you don't compress your bedding then it's not going to be good for burrowing
now let's start taking some of the Waddle's old bedding
I'm gonna also add the peek away hide
should fit
now lets add in some more accessories and such
this is a cookie jar type container from Ikea
it works great for putting other substrates in for hamsters so I have
cork granules in here
all right
let's see how to
get all this good
I have a lot of these like different kind of
Bridges and houses
these are from Niteangel and I'm also going to make sure to link everything in the description bar for you guys
this is gonna be the death of me. how do you go together?
all right now let's add some more of the fun things
so this is Waddle's little ceramic hamster hide I put in his sand bath he loves this guy
next we're gonna fill up the substrate boxes
so the first thing I have is Aspen and cork
then I have some cork bark
and then lastly we have cocoa fiber
then I'm going to grab some different mosses this one here is just a pillow moss
and we're going to place that in
then we're gonna add in a bunch of sprays
now I'm going to go in and add some herbs
then to add the water
sprinkle a bit of food around the enclosure
and then we wait for Waddles to wake up so that we can put them in his new enclosure