Marbled Roborovski Hamster

Roborovski hamsters are social and are ideally kept in same sex pairs or groupings.

Marbled roborovski hamster.

He seems to be doing very well and likes to explore in his ball and walk around on me and my sisters kids. Ends up spinning out of control over and over and over again. Roborovski hamsters a site completely devoted to roborovski hamsters the smallest and fastest hamsters. I have three female marbled roborovski hamsters penelope peppa and petra.

Never introduce a new robo to an established group. These little rodents are super sweet but there are other aspects you should consider such as roborovski hamster lifespan tameness health and personality. Roborovski hamsters are also called desert dwarf hamsters robo hamsters and robo dwarf hamsters. These are the smallest of the dwarf hamster species staying at or less than a third of the size of a syrian hamster and are much more active.

Robo hamsters also love rolling around in a container full of bathing sand. The roborovski hamster phodopus roborovskii also known as the desert hamster or robo dwarf hamster is the smallest of three species of hamster in the genus phodopus it lives in the deserts of central asia averaging under 2 centimetres 0 8 in at birth and 4 5 5 centimetres 1 8 2 0 in and 20 25 grams 0 71 0 88 oz during adulthood. The smallest of the dwarf hamsters robos are big when it comes to personality. Newcomers may not live long if you do.

Roborovski hamsters enjoy a sand bath but water will stress them out so do not try. They have a well deserved reputation for being quick hard to catch hard to handle and hard to tame. However robos tend to be more energetic than other dwarf hamsters. Roborovski hamsters are a species of dwarf hamster also known as robos.

They are the smallest and fastest of all the hamster species. Marbled normal hamster photo owned by custard hamstery 3 normals and a sapphire. He doesnt seem very skiddish at all. Purchase chinchilla sand not chinchilla dust which is very harmful.

Roborovski hamster spins around on flying saucer wheel duration. Dwarf hamsters pack loads of personality into small bodies and are very popular pets that don t take up much space. They are one of the most popular breeds. It s best to establish the grouping or pairs when the hamsters are young.

When i got them from petco they told me the robos were either between three and five months old. We offer mixed lots that may include normal marbled and white faced. Select a long dish or bowl preferably plastic and fill it up before allowing your hamster to roll around in it. They are all from the same litter.

My hamster constantly runs away from me i ve had her for four months posted in behaviour personality handling taming. Roborovski dwarfs are often called robos or sometimes robs for short. My marbled robo hamster is too fast for his wheel. If all goes well your pets should live about three years.