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Syrian Bar Biting on cage

What is the hammock made of? Sorry, if you already said. I just ask as fleece type material can be chewed. Would you like to post a picture of the cage so members can give you some tips? I find such tips so helpful when setting up a cage but I know everybody is different. :)
 
Sorry not hammock, sputnik, from the heaven. I will get a picture and work out how to load it. She's started chewing again. Strangely it's just one spot, but it's getting worse, so I think she must be bored. And she's ignoring the houses and has created a burrow, which is actually quite cute, when you see her poke her head out
 
Oh I see. If you have a look at the cage thread then you can see Maz set ups. She uses sputnik.

I know for many female Syrians they do get bored especially if they are in season which is every four days.

I use this site to upload pictures:

You can choose the size of the picture and then add it to your post. :)

Aw, it is really cute Jas is enjoying making burrows. Perhaps some extra bedding will help keep her busy. :)
 
Oh I see. If you have a look at the cage thread then you can see Maz set ups. She uses sputnik.

I know for many female Syrians they do get bored especially if they are in season which is every four days.

I use this site to upload pictures:

You can choose the size of the picture and then add it to your post. :)

Aw, it is really cute Jas is enjoying making burrows. Perhaps some extra bedding will help keep her busy. :)
It was from the post from Maz that I got the idea
 
You'll need a rat sputnik for a Syrian. Here are some photos of sputniks i used.

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I think the easiest way to get into a sputnik is from a shelf and you could put a large cork log or wicker tunnel underneath it to reduce a fall risk.
Maz is the sputnik whizzkid on here. I've never been able to set them up like her.
 
Thank you, I have a shelf that was suggested on here and I have a bendy bridge coming too. I have ordered a ladder, but not sure if that will work.
 
I wrote this earlier and forgot to hit send

I use sputniks and a rat tube tied to the roof. As per the photo of my cage. You need to be careful with roof hanging toys that they are secure and can't break or wobble too much and them fall - chains are risky too and ladders with gaps are also risky.

You can actually get coconut huts that screw to the roof, but then it needs to be over a shelf, as high up, so might as well just stand on a shelf.
 
I've always had problems with ladders! In that they keep breaking. I have the sputnik hanging next to/partly over a main shelf - that way they can easily get in and out of it. And to be honest, if they can't easily get in and out of it they don't really get used (although they do provide overhead cover and something to sit under.

With the Plaza cage being so long I sometimes use two rat sputniks - one at the front - one nearer the back, The reason for this is to have a tube going between them means they have to be at the right angle for the tube to line up with the openings. It isn't necessary to have a tube going between them - but they may jump out of the open side if there isn't one. That's ok as long as there is nothing hard or sharp to catch themselves on when they jump.
 
This is how it looks in Raffy's Plaza. On the right at the front you can see one sputnik. One entrance near the back is partly over the shelf, so he just hops into it. I put bedding inside them so they don't feel big and cold inside.

The second one is on the left further back. On the far side of that is a small shelf so he goes up the bendy bridge ramp onto the small shelf and into that sputnik - through the tunnel and into the sputnik at the other end and then onto the shelf. So it makes a kind of roof run - and he can access his main shelf from floor level as well by climbing the side of his cork log. He does both.

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The tube is the savic rat tube - it's longer than most of the others. I found the shorter tube didn't work because then the second sputnik was kind of hanging in mid air nowhere near the side of the cage. But that might work if you have a house under it he can jump out onto. That then just makes it a one way tunnel though! They could only enter it at one end but can exit it either end.

The rat tube is tied to the roof with sisal string so it's kind of hanging but doesn't really wobble around.

Or you could just have the one sputnik over the edge of a shelf. And there are some grass hammocks you can get which some people use.

But access is a good point - they need a way in and out of higher up items. Sometimes though, if you have a flat roofed house on stilts,. you only need a ramp up to the second sputnik as the house roof is high enougn with just a bendy stick bridge on it.

Beryl where do you get those long bendy stick ladders from as I have never had any success with those - after my first one broke with a hamster on it!
 
The grass hammocks don't seem to be available any more - zooplus and amazon used to sell them. Some people have used this chill and chew mat though and made that into a kind of hammock by attaching sisal rope to the corners and tying it to the roof.

 
I used to buy the long bendy ladders from Zooplus but have stopped buying them because the quality has deteriorated so much. Some were so bad with huge gaps that i threw them out.
 
Thank you, that's good advice. I think I need to have a bit of a move around.
 
It’s quite a fiddle setting up a cage isn’t it ? :)
 
I was trying not to make too many changes in the move, so it didn't stress her out, but I think she will appreciate more things to do. I did take out her sand bath, as I couldn't decide where to put it safely, but it is in her play pen, which she goes in everyday, most days twice and she does use it there. She is trying to escape her play pen now though!
 
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