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BEasy119 (01-08-2012),Herpking (09-17-2011),nykea (05-09-2013),ss10gotanks (05-05-2011),toyota89 (11-26-2012)
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Re: A Rat Colony When You Have Little Space...
very cool jo. i've been using something quite similar and it does work very well and takes up little space.
one word of advice though on putting two plastic tubs (aquariums would be fine because of their weight) vertically into the rack side by side--if the tubs overhang the shelves much at all on either end your rats will find a way to somehow make it fall off the rack. :o i put two tubs like that as a test one time and as i sitting on the floor cleaning the tubs below the boogers in one of the vertical tubs managed to make this happen, which resulted in their tub falling on my head, the top flying off, covering me in aspen, water, food and freaked out rats. fun! they must have all run to the edge and jumped up and down or something--i have no idea--but i quickly decided that that wasn't going to be a good idea.
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Re: A Rat Colony When You Have Little Space...
That's a good point Emily and exactly why I only allow one plastic tub sideways per shelf. I too tried to put two side by side and found that they overhang too much and to get two plastic tubs to fit on that rack dimension, they are simply too small too be of any real use other than maternity tubs. That's why I went with a combination of plastic tubs and glass tanks and keep the tanks low on the rack to keep it balanced weightwise.
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Re: A Rat Colony When You Have Little Space...
Originally Posted by recycling goddess
what a GREAT post jo. thanks so much. that really helps me with my "where am i gonna put all these tubs" situation we are just about to start aquiring.
and i love that you can still see and interact with your rats. our breeders are also our pets... so we want to hold them and hand feed them and play with them... the only thing i don't like about your design... if the lack of hammocks. we are a 'havetohavehammocks' colony... even the mamas love to retire to their hammock when they don't need to sit on their pups... so i think... a mesh on the top with large enough squares that we can clip a closepin onto it (to hold up each of the four corners of our hammocks) would make this absolute perfection for our colony!!!
You may have to find something other than clothespins Aleesha as I'd worry about doing to any larger mesh. I know my young weanlings can easily jump straight up and will happily hang from this mesh. I'd worry that they'd start to shove their faces into larger mesh and possibly get caught up a bit in it. I'm sure there's something that would hold your hammocks using this mesh size....just haven't had enough coffee to think of what that is yet this morning LOL. I don't personally use hammocks as my colony chewed through them so quickly and I've reached enough numbers that replacing them constantly just wasn't working for me anymore.
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Re: A Rat Colony When You Have Little Space...
Nice idea definately. Those shelving units are often on sale at the HDepot, and some that are even cheaper are sold as "garage shelving", made out of metal. I used to have those back in my old bedroom back home (they fit the decor, hehe) and they are nice and sturdy.
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Re: A Rat Colony When You Have Little Space...
awesome post, i was looking into finding something similar for our pets thanks
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Re: A Rat Colony When You Have Little Space...
how do you put the screen in the top of the lids??? can we post pics of that and how you do it, what product are you using also
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forgive me if this has been already asked how did you secure the hardware screen thin to the lids
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