Bc of a hiccup with the shelter's computers i prolly won't be able to pickup the HamHam until next week :( in the meantime tho, rate my setup!
[Image Description: a large glass tank enclosure (forty-eight inches by twenty inches by twenty inches), with a wire mesh top and secured by six (currently unlocked) child safety locks, with ten inches of undyed paper bedding (declining towards the left so there's room for the wheel) and hamster stuff in it
[The left side, showing a twelve inch (unglowing) glow-in-the-dark Silent running wheel in the far corner, a cardboard toilet paper tube with twigs of apple wood sticking out it like a tree next to the wheel, then in front of the wheel is a piece of cardboard with cut up paper towel tubes glued on it. In the near corner is a large empty ceramic bowl and next to that, going up the bedding hill, is a handmade cardboard bridge with cork granules glued all over it.]
The tubes are going to be a foraging enrichment, all of them stuffed with shredded toilet paper and some with treats enrichment. I bought the bowl for food not realizing how big it was, so I'm going to fill it with cork granules for a digging pit. It's supported unseen by an old cookie tin I have. The wheel is also supported by a sturdy cardboard box with basswood blocks glued on the bottom (all gluing is done with nontoxic Elmer's School Glue, which while you shouldn't feed by the spoonful, is safe enough if a hamster nibbles on it).
[The center of the enclosure. In the back is buried a large and long metal tin that looks like a barn on the inside. Next to that is a hollow coconut, opening facing away. In the front of the enclosure, a largish white plastic flowerpot that looks like identical faces are pushing out of it is half-burried in the bedding, opening facing the camera. A piece of partly carved basswood is behind it.]
The large tin will be full of dust-free sand for bathing. Coconut a little hideaway. The pot of many faces is nontoxic 3D-printed P.L.A, which is generally regarded as safe for hamsters and is thick and hard enough if shouldn't be chewed... but at the first sign of chewing I'm yoinking it out of there. Basswood is a whittling reject.
[The right side of the enclosure, with the wooden stand for a rodent sippy (sans said sippy) in the far corner, the opening of the coconut hideaway pointing towards it, in the near corner is a handmade 2-chambetes cardboard hideaway, and a heart-shaped tin lid in front of it. End I.D]
The tin is the emergency feeding plate since the bowl I ordered is now the cork pit. Sippy is currently drying after being washed. Originally I had two, but it turns out they were meant to be affixed to a wire cage and couldn't be attached to the acrylic glass of this one. It's barely seen but that stand is level on yet another cookie tin lid.
I need more clutter methinks. I ordered slate but it wasn't slate that arrived so I'm returning it for a refund today. What they sent me is too dusty to be safely used. It's used for gentle climbing and for keeping little nails trim so I do intend to get some. Some people add mosses like spaghnum to it, but moss can increase humidity and I already live in a humid environment. On that note I've already got a thermometer/humidity gage on the way. There's also a seagrass tube big enough for a Syrian on its way courtesy of my dad.
Anyway what do hamster people think? It's my first time getting a hamster so I want it to be as good as I can manage
