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How Can You Make A Hamster Cage Out Of A Fish Tank?

I have a glass fish tank (Kinda big) with a plastic top. I had 6 fishes living in them, but now they're all dead. I have a basic cage for my hamster, and i want to make him a bigger one out my fish tank. How can I do this?

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1. Clean the tank well, put in your hamster bedding (cedar chips, whatever). Add hamster hiding place, toys, food, etc. Add hamster. That's about it.
2. Go to the pet shop or walmart and get a screen cover for the tank, make sure you don't forget to get your little friend a water bottle you can hang from the side of the tank. Just remember to either put something on top so he doesn't escape and to be extra sure, don't have anything he can climb on too close to the top.
3. If the fish have already lived there, you shouldn't put your hamster in the tank. It will die soon after the switch. And he would have to re-adjust to a whole new environment, which is very hard on a hamster. For any hamster help, please email me at alexisgoggin@yahoo.com
4. How to make a tank into a hamster cage. You will need : water bottle with a stand sturdy food bowl a hamster house 2 or 3 hamster toys food vegetable saw dust shredded/ ripped up paper 1. fill bottle with water, place it on stand 2. place water bottle and stand in the corner of the tank 3. fill cage 5cm deep with saw dust 4. fill the food bowl with food ( hamster ) and place it 5cm away from the water bottle - now your kitchen area is done 5. take the roof off the hamster house and fill with shredded paper. 6. put the hamster house against a wall furthest away from the kitchen. 7. put the hamster toys spaced around in the tank 8. add the hamsters good luck
5. Make sure you disinfect it with lemon quat (what petsmart uses to clean their cages) or really diluted bleach as long as you rinse it clean after wards. Make sure you get a water bottle that can hang on the side of the tank, Petsmart and Petco sell these. Fill the tank (after it drys) with an inch or so of CAREFRESH pet bedding (any kind of cedar, wood shavings, or pine will upset a fragile resperitory system, and add everything as you normally would, make sure you also have a wheel that can be on a stand and not hooked on the side of a cage. I personally love the silent spinner! Hope I helped! My hammy is in a tank right now and loving it!
6. after you set up the cage, they make plastic cages that hook on top of fish tanks that has stairs going up to the plastic cages. It looks pretty cool.