Marbled Roborovski Hamster

As with most dwarf hamsters robos are very quick.

Marbled roborovski hamster.

If all goes well your pets should live about three years. Roborovski hamsters are social and are ideally kept in same sex pairs or groupings. 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 a site completely devoted to roborovski hamsters the smallest and fastest hamsters.

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. When i got them from petco they told me the robos were either between three and five months old. I have three female marbled roborovski hamsters penelope peppa and petra. However robos tend to be more energetic than other dwarf hamsters.

Dwarf hamsters pack loads of personality into small bodies and are very popular pets that don t take up much space. Roborovski dwarfs are often called robos or sometimes robs for short. They are the smallest and fastest of all the hamster species. Newcomers may not live long if you do.

Roborovski hamsters enjoy a sand bath but water will stress them out so do not try. I just bought my first hamster marbled robo a few days ago. Ive had them for four months. Robo hamsters also love rolling around in a container full of bathing sand.

Purchase chinchilla sand not chinchilla dust which is very harmful. 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. Roborovski hamsters are also called desert dwarf hamsters robo hamsters and robo dwarf hamsters. Roborovski hamster spins around on flying saucer wheel duration.

He doesnt seem very skiddish at all. They are all from the same litter. They have a well deserved reputation for being quick hard to catch hard to handle and hard to tame. Ends up spinning out of control over and over and over again.

Select a long dish or bowl preferably plastic and fill it up before allowing your hamster to roll around in it. Marbled normal hamster photo owned by custard hamstery 3 normals and a sapphire. My hamster constantly runs away from me i ve had her for four months posted in behaviour personality handling taming. We offer mixed lots that may include normal marbled and white faced.

Never introduce a new robo to an established group. My marbled robo hamster is too fast for his wheel. The smallest of the dwarf hamsters robos are big when it comes to personality. It s best to establish the grouping or pairs when the hamsters are young.