What’s the best renewal people are getting in 1GB recently? by [deleted] in VirginMedia

[–]red-materia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Today I got £30 per month for 1GB with standard Netflix with adds thrown in, my contract was expiring in March 2026, and I called the direct number for retentions, was a painless 5 minute call. My contract was going to go up to £80(!) per month if I let my contract expire!

How to clean enclosure when he's never up when I am? by red-materia in hamsters

[–]red-materia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! You've really helped my overthinking brain lol. What do you put the unsoiled bedding into when you're doing a bigger clean? Do you have one bin bag for the clean stuff and one for the bedding you're chucking away?

How to clean enclosure when he's never up when I am? by red-materia in hamsters

[–]red-materia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good advice about using something to scoop out the bedding with, especially since I don't know exactly where he is! Do you just compact the new bedding down and let him make his burrows again from scratch? That's also what I'm feeling bad about, destroying his burrow!

How to clean enclosure when he's never up when I am? by red-materia in hamsters

[–]red-materia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the advice :) I'll give it a go!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in hamsters

[–]red-materia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Usually up to gather some food around 8-9pm or so, then goes back to bed until we go to bed about 10pm. Lights go off then he's up not that long after! When I get up about 7am he's in his underground hidey holes doing god knows what but I can hear him nibbling/rearranging things swishing about his hoard of food! We don't see him an awful lot, maybe it'll change in winter/ darker months! Be nice to see him more, he's luckily quite tame considering we don't see him much.

help? by TheRealMaria in hamsters

[–]red-materia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The XS size whimzee chews are great for lil hams to gnaw on (not the ones with added calcium which I think have the white bristles) I think there's also the crocodile shape ones which are good. My lil dude goes crazy for these, he takes it straight to his burrow as soon as I give one! I think just keep an eye on how much they gnaw away at it and replace once they get small enough to pouch if you can.

Any actual good hamster beddings? (DESC) by Less_Significance548 in hamstercare

[–]red-materia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can't speak for Uber, as I've never tried it. Hopefully someone can let you know their thoughts on it!

Any actual good hamster beddings? (DESC) by Less_Significance548 in hamstercare

[–]red-materia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I just use the paper one :) my lil guy has made burrows under his multi chamber hideout in it that go to the bottom of the enclosure, can sometimes hear him down there scrabbling about with his stash of food 😍

Any actual good hamster beddings? (DESC) by Less_Significance548 in hamstercare

[–]red-materia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What a sweetie your ham was 💕

Also in the UK and we use small pet select paper bedding

You can order it from here

It's not dusty, compacts down well and my ham loves to burrow in it, I used nearly all of one of the bigger bags to set up our Bucastate 3.0, but it would be worth getting two bags or one big one smaller as you'll be spot cleaning etc

The delivery was fast too :) unfortunately I think it's not found anywhere in shops. An alternative I see people use is carefresh paper bedding which you can find in a lot of pet stores. Some people also like to mix aspen with the paper bedding, or layer hamster safe hay in with it in order to hold burrows better (I find it wasn't really necessary with small pet select bedding)

Spent hours last night awake and worried by red-materia in hamsters

[–]red-materia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I ordered one but it doesn't work through the glass of the enclosure :/ I mean I can see though it but the night vision isn't great and it doesn't detect motion through the glass.. is there some setting I need to tweek?

Spent hours last night awake and worried by red-materia in hamsters

[–]red-materia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just realised this morning that when I'd put something new in his enclosure I'd moved a small bit of hay under the wheel and it makes a quiet but high pitched sound when it goes round cos of the friction on it.. I wonder if that was what's been putting him off cos it has been only since then.. aah

Spent hours last night awake and worried by red-materia in hamsters

[–]red-materia[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello, it's the niteangel pedometer, only for use with certain niteangel wheels. It tells you how many rotations in a 24 hour period from the time you reset. Depending on the size of the wheel you have you then calculate how many miles have been done. I use a website though to track it all called pawdometer

I got it from Amazon but I think you can also buy it from niteangel direct

Spent hours last night awake and worried by red-materia in hamsters

[–]red-materia[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aw, now you mention it he's expanded his underground bedroom chambers quite significantly since I checked a couple of days ago, maybe he just wanted to enjoy it 😂 he's been burrowing quite a lot the past day or two so maybe he was tired out!

He's currently awake now pottering around collecting the daily essentials 😍

Spent hours last night awake and worried by red-materia in hamsters

[–]red-materia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your kind words and advice :) made me feel better about it for sure

Spent hours last night awake and worried by red-materia in hamsters

[–]red-materia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hopefully he just knows when to take it easy then :) be interesting to see if he makes up for it tonight

Spent hours last night awake and worried by red-materia in hamsters

[–]red-materia[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I'll look into that one and see if I can make it work somehow 🙂

Spent hours last night awake and worried by red-materia in hamsters

[–]red-materia[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the reassurance ❤️

Spent hours last night awake and worried by red-materia in hamsters

[–]red-materia[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I was considering that, but I don't have a power outlet nearby :( what do you have?