Marbled Roborovski Hamster

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.

Marbled roborovski hamster.

However robos tend to be more energetic than other dwarf hamsters. Roborovski hamster spins around on flying saucer wheel duration. 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.

Roborovski dwarfs are often called robos or sometimes robs for short. The smallest of the dwarf hamsters robos are big when it comes to personality. I have three female marbled roborovski hamsters penelope peppa and petra. Ive had them for four months.

Roborovski hamsters are social and are ideally kept in same sex pairs or groupings. Robo hamsters also love rolling around in a container full of bathing sand. Roborovski hamsters are a species of dwarf hamster also known as robos. They are all from the same litter.

If all goes well your pets should live about three years. Never introduce a new robo to an established group. My marbled robo hamster is too fast for his wheel. As with most dwarf hamsters robos are very quick.

They have a well deserved reputation for being quick hard to catch hard to handle and hard to tame. He doesnt seem very skiddish at all. When i got them from petco they told me the robos were either between three and five months old. Dwarf hamsters pack loads of personality into small bodies and are very popular pets that don t take up much space.

Marbled normal hamster photo owned by custard hamstery 3 normals and a sapphire. Newcomers may not live long if you do. They are the smallest and fastest of all the hamster species. My hamster constantly runs away from me i ve had her for four months posted in behaviour personality handling taming.

He seems to be doing very well and likes to explore in his ball and walk around on me and my sisters kids. They are one of the most popular breeds. Select a long dish or bowl preferably plastic and fill it up before allowing your hamster to roll around in it. I just bought my first hamster marbled robo a few days ago.

It s best to establish the grouping or pairs when the hamsters are young. Roborovski hamsters enjoy a sand bath but water will stress them out so do not try. Purchase chinchilla sand not chinchilla dust which is very harmful. Roborovski hamsters are also called desert dwarf hamsters robo hamsters and robo dwarf hamsters.