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Post your upgrades in comment section below! Before and after improving hamster care. Here’s mine!
Estimated Cage Size Improvement from...
Tiny Alex Cage 30cm
Plastic Fish Tank 60cm
Zoozone2 100cm
Detolf 160cm
After countless trial and errors, from bar cages like Alaska 84cm, Acrylic Cage 90cm etc. I am at a comfortable size of what works best for me and my hamsters - 120cm x 45cm x 45cm.
Does a decrease in cage size from 160cm Detolf to 120cm Fish Tank constitutes a downgrade? Sure.
But how are the hamsters behaving?
Observations: • The height of the tank surpasses the detolf, they are able to burrow in taller amount of bedding - larger tunnels sighted! • They are be able to reach their hanging toys easier and hopped on hammocks to beg for more time in socialising.
Criteria: • Were there any weight loss? • Weight gain? • Any changes in temperament like becoming aggressive?
No.
So, are the hamsters living well in the downgrade? Yes. Does that work for both ME and my HAMSTERS? Yes. Does it qualify as a REASONABLE downgrade? Yes.
Note: Not all hamsters behave the same nor do we all share the same level of ethics; but science based evidence of minimum requirements, are like it suggests - MINIMUM.
So, trolls trying to abase on minimum cage sizes saying what works for YOU is 30cm and your hamster is SURVIVING well in a 30cm cage means that 30cm is a suitable cage size.. keep it to yourselves
Kindly note that SURVIVING does not equates to THRIVING.
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