Rotastak Pink Palace Small Animal Housing

• Suitable for hamsters, gerbils and mice
• Complete living environment
• Flexible and fun
• Fully compatible with the Rotastak range
• Not suitable for baby animals

Product Description
The complete living environment for hamsters, gerbils and mice..

Rotastak allows you to build a complete and extendable world for your pet, by joining together the various homes, extensions and accessories in any combination you choose – the system can just grow with your imagination!

In this way, you can keep your pet exercised and amused with an endless variety of new tunnels, mazes and activities.

In a magical kingdom, far, far away, there was a beautiful pal… More >>

Rotastak Pink Palace Small Animal Housing

You Hamster Will Love a Rotastak Hamster Cage

A Rotastak hamster cage can be one of the nicest things you can provide for you pet. The beautiful colored and clear plastic compartments add a lot of interest to hamster viewing. Here is a basic description of some of their products to help you decide what to buy.
With each cage purchase you will get a detailed assembly manual.

These cages can be bought in units so that a customized habitat can be easily built. The individual compartments can be connected together with tubes for travel to all areas of the home.  Smaller varieties of hamsters may have problems moving up and down in the vertical tubes. In this case you can buy a little ladder for the vertical tubes to help him climb about.

Many people choose the Rotastak Sports Starter Home as their first purchase. It has a round main room and an attic bedroom accessed through a tube. It is small but would be suitable for one or two Dwarf hamsters. It comes with an exercise wheel and water bottle. The top of the main room can be removed for easy cleaning.  The Starter Deluxe is a little larger but similar layout to the Sports Starter Home.

The Maxi Mansion Rotastak hamster cage has about twice as much space as the starter models and also has an attic bedroom. A water bottle and exercise wheel are included.

There are two Pod Units that are based on a wire cage, which is triangular from, and end view and basically consists of one large room. A deluxe model called the Mission Pod has a complex array tubes over the cage allowing lots of exploration room. There are two water bottles and a vortex wheel. This model can house up to three Dwarf hamsters.
Several of the smaller cage models can be connected together with tubes to provide a complex array of units.  The Pink Palace is one of these. Its pink color would make it suitable for girls. There are four distinct compartmentalized play areas with an array of winding tubes connecting them.

The Creepy Castle is a bi-level Rotastak hamster cage with four attic bedrooms and exercise wheel. The colors are black and green. The green is a glow in the dark material, which allows you to see your pets in the dark, and gives the cage its name. It is suitable for up to four Dwarf hamsters.

The Pirate Ship consists of a dining room, bedroom, and two water bottles. One of the compartments is detachable and has a water bottle and is ideal for travel with your pet. These combination units are by far the best sellers and most popular with folks.

There are several Add On units as follows for your Rotastak hamster cage. The Dining Room is circular room with three tube holes and a pull out drawer for easy feeding. The Home-Away-Room is a small rectangular room with a carrying handle to allow you to take your hamster with you. The Basement room is a tall, bucket shaped, clear plastic room with one tube hole for connecting to a room above. The Roof Garden is a dome shaped room made of wire with a single tube hole in the bottom.

Rotastak will help you build a mansion with all sorts of spare parts, wheels, bottles, covers, ladders, and gnaw rings.

Rotastak Hamster Cage FAQ – 3 Simple Tips on Introducing Dwarf Hamsters to Each Other

For the people who didn’t know, when you buy a new dwarf hamster and want to introduce it to those that you already have, it is not as simple as just putting the new hamster into it’s new home. Work has to be done to ensure that this newcomer is accepted and welcomed by the rest of the hamsters you already have. Thus I wrote this article, to share with you some steps and measures to take in order to prevent harm towards your new hamster. I mentioned dwarf hamsters because I’m not too sure about how to introduce the other breeds of hamsters. This is the method I’ve used for my own dwarfs.

1. The setup of the cage

(a) Essential steps have to be taken to setup the cage. You will need to get a separator of some sort (I’ve got a BBQ wire mesh) put it in between the new dwarf hamster and the existing ones that you have. This serves as a barrier to protect either sides of the cage. What I did was to stick tape across the mesh so that my hamsters can’t get over to the other side. I have a picture of this. Do leave me a note and your email address at my blog for me to send you a picture of how I did it.
(b) Because dwarf hamsters are territorial, they mark out their territory by this gland at the bottom of their belly. Therefore we have to make sure that the new dwarf hamster gets a fresh set of bedding to prevent it from feeling threatened with the scent of the other hamsters.
(c) Once done, you can put your hamster into the cage and make sure all the necessities like water, wheel, food etc. are readily available.

2. The getting used-to period

(a) The hamsters will be very curious to see who is on the other side of the cage. Mine tried to bite the the mesh and the good thing about BBQ mesh is that they can’t bite through it.
(b) If you hear squeaking sound made by the hamsters. Do not panic. They are just unfamiliar with each other and will stop after awhile. (Mine stopped after a week)

3. The follow up

(a) The job’s not done yet! For them to get used to each other we do it the passive way first. Every 2-3 days, swap their places. Meaning if hamster A is on the left now, bring it over to hamster B’s side and bring hamster B to hamster A’s side. This is for them to get used to the smell of the other hamster.
(b) When you do that, make sure that each hamster has enough food to eat. Best time to swap places is before meal time. This way, the hamsters will definitely not go hungry.
(c) After a week you noticed your hamsters stopped squeaking at each other, introduce them to each other. (ie. Taking the barrier away) Pay close attention to them as they might not be ready for each other. If they start scuffling, use your hand to separate them. This is a sign that they’re not ready to live with each other. Put the barrier in between them again and continue the swapping places for 3 more cycles.
(d) Hopefully by then, they will be able to live together harmoniously. If after 2 to 3 tries, your hamsters are still scuffling non stop, then my suggestion is that it is best not to let them live together.

Hopefully these 3 simple tips will be helpful to you in introducing your dwarf hamsters to each other.

A Rotastak Home For Your Hamster

Rotastak is a type of housing for hamsters, although it can easily be adapted for other small rodents.
When constructing a Rotastak you should put into consideration a hamster’s natural habitat. Their natural habitats are mainly underground burrows in the desert. The most common materials needed to make a Rotastak home for a hamster are plastics bottles of all shapes and sizes, the idea being to try and make a playing room and a resting place for the hamster. Try to make them as pretty as possible by using different colours especially attractive to children. This also makes it look beautiful and fit in with the home setting.

The resting room should have a diameter of around 15 centimetres and should be made up of two pieces of plastic that are dish shaped and that are able to twirl together. The piece at the bottom should be made of solid plastic. The other one should be made of coloured clear plastic that enables the owner to see the hamster. This also enables the hamster to see through as well. Make sure when making the homes that they have exercise areas on various levels so as to encourage mobility. Hamsters are known to love exercising, by running round in circles inside their homes.

Your hamster will adore discovering his new home and will have so much to do that he will never be bored. The bedrooms should have a hole for one tube on the bottom or on the side and connected to a tube that connects two rooms together. Another room is the maxi division. It is a tank in the shape of a kidney that is quite large and the hamster can use it to play around and rest as well. It can be made of clear plastic and should have a plastic lid with hinges for easy access for the pet. On the front part of the structure, two holes can be seen and three others on the lid. This allows one to build round rooms in an upward direction and another one in the part of the lid that has the hinge.

Other rooms include the dining area where the diameter is the same length as the one of the round room. It has two tubes on the side and one hole on the floor. One hole is used for putting a bottle of water. This allows the hamster to always have sufficient water available. Make sure this is topped up daily with fresh water. Make a sliding drawer on the dining room wall in order to make feeding times easy. Always make sure to plug in all the holes of the Rotastak, or the pet will easily wander off.

Since the Rotastak is small and portable, it can be placed in any room of the house. This will not hinder the hamster from exercising. Another advantage of the Rotastak is the material that is used for its construction. Hamsters would gnaw on wood and thus the manufacturers use a kind of plastic that the hamster cannot chew through, so your hamster home should last for many years.

Rotastak Hamster Cage Buying Guide

Rotastak units for hamsters

Each of the Rotastak hamster cages comes with its own full colour assembly instructions. These plastic hamster cages are not as hard to put together as it may first look!

Rotastak units is based on a modular system which allows you to build on and create palace for your hamster pet friend.

Rotastak for hamsters

Each of the Rotastak hamster cages comes with its own full colour assembly instructions. These plastic hamster cages are not as hard to put together as it may look!

Dwarf hamsters, baby Syrian hamsters and mice may find it difficult to climb vertical tubes. You can adapt Rotastak fo hamster cages by fitting ‘mouse’ ladders to the inside of the tubes.  Securing these to the cage with wire is recommended

The Basic Units

The ‘Original Unit’, well known, round unit. Has been available for three generations. The ‘Starter Home’ is a single round unit with an attic bedroom – suitable for a single hamster, gerbil or mouse. These popular easy clean plastic hamster cages have a large easy access in the roof. Starter Delux illustrated.

The ‘Maxi Unit’, nearly double the floor area of a single original round unit. The smallest unit in this range is the ‘Maxi Mansion’ which comes complete with hamster exercise wheel, water bottle and attic bedroom. Suitable for a single hamster, gerbil or mouse.

Pod Units

The ‘Pod Unit’, a triangular sectional cage on two levels with a combination of plastic and wire bars. The smallest, also suitable for a single hamster, gerbil or mouse, is the ‘Cosmo Pod’ which includes feeding bowl and water bottle.

These are clear plastic with multi-coloured accessories in primary colours, red, blue and yellow.

Combination Units

All Rotastak hamster cages can be connected together with special sectional tubing. To help protect the ends of these tubes it is recommended that you use protective anti-gnaw rings.

Above are larger ‘Combination Units’ and ‘Themed Units’. i.e. Pink Palace (iIllustrated), ‘Adventure Zone’ and ‘Creepy Castle’. These are clear plastic with multi-coloured accessories in primary colours, red, blue and yellow or the theme may have a different colour scheme. 

Alot of people always ask the question are the stickers permanent?  No they are not they are transfers similar to the type you get on a tax disc.  They can stick anywhere on the clear plastic but just as easily be removed.  All the units start off without any stickers and its upto you where to put them or not!

All these units are available at net pet shop brand new and boxed with all packaging.  

Combination units are by far the most popular

Add on units

To keep adding and make your living space and fun space for your hamster even better rotastak has many add-on units and connecting tubes to do this.  Whether you want to combine main housing units or just add an extra wheel runner to your hamster home rotastak has the products. 

Spare and Accessories

To help you aaccomplish your rotastak ‘buckingham’ palace and to keep it in ship shape so that you always have the perfect safe home, Rotastak provides lots of spare parts and accessories, wheels, bottles, ladders (for dwarf hamsters), gnaw rings, covers, spare clips to keep hammy in.

Bowls and Bedding

Rotastak also provides bowls and bedding from luxury ceramic bowls to eco-friendly made from recycled materials  bedding.

Enjoy creating your hamster homes