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If they tunnel under the houses, they do sink 😊

You don’t need to buy legs - you can just glue dowels on as legs. I bought pine or beech 8mm round dowels on Amazon - 30cm long and you just cut them to the length you want (they are very easy to cut even with a tiny saw) but you would need a saw of some kind to cut them. Then glue the dowels to the front outside of the house (and sides).

So you work out how long you want the legs (eg the current depth of substrate under the house) - say 20m. Then you add on the height of the house (just under the full height to under where the roof sits). So if the house is 9cm high up to the height of the underneath of the roof then the dowels need to be 29cm long - and 9cm of that is glued to the outside wall of the house - which gives it a secure fixing. So if you had the substrate 21cm deep and 30 cm dowels, there would be no need to cut them 😊

The downside to that is it’s not as quick as just taking the hamster out while you slot pre made legs on. You would need to take the house out and maybe allow 12 to 24 hours for the glue to set - so you’d need to pop a temporary house in the same place (maybe a shoebox house).
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Ah thanks Maz, so the glue is still. Now i know the legs name. So far i only know people use kind of a stick as a leg for DIY, i though it was chopstick 😆
 
It does look a bit like a chopstick :-) These are the things I mean.

Wood dowels

However, chopsticks might work too! If they are made of wood :)

The difficult thing will be finding non toxic wood glue. It does need strong wood glue to hold them - but a lot of wood glue has toxic fumes. I've always used ponal, which is a German non toxic wood glue and it doesn't smell of anything. It's hard enough to get in the Uk so you might not be able to get it, plus it's quite expensive. About £12 a bottle.

So it might actually be cheaper to buy legs! I did buy some niteangel legs for one of my Happy Henry houses (when I needed some quickly) and they worked ok. The legs you buy have grooves cut out of the top in a cross shape so they just slot onto the bottom of the house and no glue needed.
 
Maz said:
It does look a bit like a chopstick :-) These are the things I mean.

Wood dowels

However, chopsticks might work too! If they are made of wood :)

The difficult thing will be finding non toxic wood glue. It does need strong wood glue to hold them - but a lot of wood glue has toxic fumes. I've always used ponal, which is a German non toxic wood glue and it doesn't smell of anything. It's hard enough to get in the Uk so you might not be able to get it, plus it's quite expensive. About £12 a bottle.

So it might actually be cheaper to buy legs! I did buy some niteangel legs for one of my Happy Henry houses (when I needed some quickly) and they worked ok. The legs you buy have grooves cut out of the top in a cross shape so they just slot onto the bottom of the house and no glue needed.
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Yeah i though it also, because the my multichamber joints are not match and loose, i think i need to ask nearby woodcrafter to make some legs like niteangel ones. Too stick it with only glue would make some part of multichamber fall off.

Thanks Maz, this is really some insight for me and helpful information as well 😁
 
Today is the first time for Kuy goes to playpen. He is so adorable when i call his name, he is coming to me. All progress is good so far, he is still need a bulking a bit because his weight only 75 gr.

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He is lovely, such a clever fellow! His playpen is nice and spacious! What is his age?
 
He looks to be loving it! It's adorable he comes when you call him :-) He sounds a real personality. Is he very young still? 75g is quite low, even for a baby hamster. But he will grow. Just give him a normal healthy diet for now. A good hamster mix with enough protein and a tiny bit of fresh veg.
 
Thanks Sock Mom, Tulfi, Maz

His age is 3 months old. Mostly in here 3 months old hamster barely have 70gr. Is there anyfood can boost his growth? Beside fresh veg or proteins (Chicken, tofu, and boiled egg)

Today i decided to give more bedding, looks like Kuy enjoy to burrow and love to sleep under the burrow. He is sleeps like a little baby, even my a big noise doesn't make him budge or wake up.

Kuy have a good progress either he sniffed my hand a lot, i gave him a half wallnut as a reward for came out.
 
He is a sweetie 🥰 He will choose his favourites from the menu 🥗 🌰 🥜
He likes his snoozies. Yes, Socks can sleep through vacuum cleaner noise, even a carpet cleaner in the next room. Sleep is precious ♥️
 
Socks Mum said:
He is a sweetie 🥰 He will choose his favourites from the menu 🥗 🌰 🥜
He likes his snoozies. Yes, Socks can sleep through vacuum cleaner noise, even a carpet cleaner in the next room. Sleep is precious ♥️
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If i dont wake him up, he will sleep all day 🤣
This is my first time, have a hamster who treasure a sleep and also not react to any sound.
 
If they are genetically small for 3 months generally, then he will just grow to full size within the next 3 to 6 months. So I'd just give him a standard diet with enough protein rather than try and bulk him up - he needs to grow rather than get fatter ha ha.

As long as he gets 18% to 20% protein in his mix, that will be his building blocks.
 
Hi all
Long time no update, have been busy these days.
Kuy is doing alright until now, however he is in the picky eater phase.
i did a fast check on him, no sign of illness or overgrowth teeth. Right now, im on my journey to find which seedmix will match with Kuy taste.

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He’s so sweet and so tiny 😊. Are you sure he’s not eating it? They often just pouch some to hoard and leave a lot behind - then eat from their hoards. Higgins food never seems to go down! You would think he wasn’t eating any - but I know he has a hoard and does take some.

What mix does Kuy have at the moment?
 
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Hi all
Long time no update, have been busy these days.
Kuy is doing alright until now, however he is in the picky eater phase.
i did a fast check on him, no sign of illness or overgrowth teeth. Right now, im on my journey to find which seedmix will match with Kuy taste.

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Kuy has a lovely baby face! What a nice cage to live in too!
 
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Thanks all for the praise, Kuy happy to hear that! 😊

@Maz i put some new food to change his hoard before. Im sure it is only a small amount of food i left behind. I double checked with scale him, it seems he loss some weight maybe around 1 or 2 grams. He looks so active and not in pain, he love jogging on his wheel a lot. He doesnt take any small seeds and only took big ones, even the protein he only want to take is tofu.
 
Im combine 2 different seedmix

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This one is one table spoon and the other one is half of table spoon.
 

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There are a lot of lentils high in the ingredients list and they're not easily digestible or may not be eaten. Also it looks like they are intended to provide a lot of the protein so I would supplement his protein. If he takes tofu that's ok - I'd try giving him half a walnut twice a week as well as a treat and maybe a bit of chopped hard boiled egg or scrambled egg? Will he eat that?

With his hoard, unless he's peeing on it I would leave it for quite some time now so he gets into an established routine of hoarding and eating from his hoard. To be on the safe side, it might be good to add a few science selective pellets to his mix (which contain everything needed) - if you can get them?

Personally I wouldn't want to have lentils in a mix. Although I know quite a few home made mixes have them now.
 
Maz said:
There are a lot of lentils high in the ingredients list and they're not easily digestible or may not be eaten. Also it looks like they are intended to provide a lot of the protein so I would supplement his protein. If he takes tofu that's ok - I'd try giving him half a walnut twice a week as well as a treat and maybe a bit of chopped hard boiled egg or scrambled egg? Will he eat that?

With his hoard, unless he's peeing on it I would leave it for quite some time now so he gets into an established routine of hoarding and eating from his hoard. To be on the safe side, it might be good to add a few science selective pellets to his mix (which contain everything needed) - if you can get them?

Personally I wouldn't want to have lentils in a mix. Although I know quite a few home made mixes have them now.
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Thats right Maz, i guess all seller in here use lentils. The imported one i found only verselaga and bucatstate or tafit seedmix. I gave him wallnut also he does like it, i intend to give a bit of brazilian nut. Hard boiled egg is okay for Kuy, but never try with scrambled egg. If we want to give a scrambled egg, should we cook it with oil or not? And also which part we cook? The white only or can be with yellow?

His hoard is in the clay castle and i found the inside so dusty because after sandbathing he went to the castle, so i decided to threw it away.
i dont think science selective available in here because this is import product and also it is a preorder item, however i found mazuri available in here.
 
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