Marbled Roborovski Hamster

They are one of the most popular breeds.

Marbled roborovski hamster.

Roborovski hamsters enjoy a sand bath but water will stress them out so do not try. Marbled normal hamster photo owned by custard hamstery 3 normals and a sapphire. They are all from the same litter. Roborovski hamsters a site completely devoted to roborovski hamsters the smallest and fastest hamsters.

Purchase chinchilla sand not chinchilla dust which is very harmful. Select a long dish or bowl preferably plastic and fill it up before allowing your hamster to roll around in it. 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. Roborovski hamsters are social and are ideally kept in same sex pairs or groupings.

He seems to be doing very well and likes to explore in his ball and walk around on me and my sisters kids. Dwarf hamsters pack loads of personality into small bodies and are very popular pets that don t take up much space. We offer mixed lots that may include normal marbled and white faced. However robos tend to be more energetic than other dwarf hamsters.

Roborovski dwarfs are often called robos or sometimes robs for short. He doesnt seem very skiddish at all. Newcomers may not live long if you do. Never introduce a new robo to an established group.

I have three female marbled roborovski hamsters penelope peppa and petra. Ive had them for four months. My marbled robo hamster is too fast for his wheel. Robo hamsters also love rolling around in a container full of bathing sand.

Ends up spinning out of control over and over and over again. They have a well deserved reputation for being quick hard to catch hard to handle and hard to tame. These little rodents are super sweet but there are other aspects you should consider such as roborovski hamster lifespan tameness health and personality. If all goes well your pets should live about three years.

It s best to establish the grouping or pairs when the hamsters are young. My hamster constantly runs away from me i ve had her for four months posted in behaviour personality handling taming. I just bought my first hamster marbled robo a few days ago. They are the smallest and fastest of all the hamster species.

When i got them from petco they told me the robos were either between three and five months old. Roborovski hamsters are also called desert dwarf hamsters robo hamsters and robo dwarf hamsters. As with most dwarf hamsters robos are very quick. 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.