Thank you for doing a review, retroandvegan. This posting is a few days later than I’d hoped due to a thunderstorm but here I am better late than never.
I’ve had a blue one of these for several years and thought they had been discontinued. My rescue Syrian lives in it. I bumped in to a lady at a recent hamster show who had carried it in to enter her pets in the pets class. She told me that they are still available online so I ordered another 2 which have just arrived!
Although I intensely dislike cages with coloured bases which are non see through this cage is a really good cage and I much prefer it to a zoozone 1 I have. The lid doesn’t need wiring and it is as big as a zoozone 1.
Here is the original version of the duna multy with the see through base. It is so old I no longer remember the cage’s name. This is a very old cage that I’ve had many years. Incidentally this is an old photo and I don’t use the metal shelf anymore since a Winter White got his foot stuck in it. Luckily I was in the room when he got his foot stuck and freed him.
There is a hole for the water bottle and 2 tiny holes in the top to attach it through. I use garden wire coated in green and thread it through the hole in the top of my bottles and then attach it through the holes on the upper part of the cage. I use a classic water bottle I’ve had for years with a plastic bit at the top with a hole in for threading the wire through.
With Roborovskis in such a big cage I often use the holes in the top half of the lid and suspend the bottle inside the cage so they I can lower it to a height robos can reach and then they can easily get to it to drink.
I then cover the hole for the water bottle with plastic stuck to the side of the cage with double sided sticky tape.
Unlike retroandvegan I don’t find attaching the bottle odd using the above technique. I’ve been using a cage just like it for years and have my wiring technique. I prefer using a bottle like this than using the suckers which come with the mini duna as they can come unstuck.
However, it is surprising that Ferplast have the bottle at the back of the cage so if you are hanging the bottle as it’s supposed to be on the outside you can’t put the cage directly against a wall which some of my cages are unless you don't mind opening the lid the 'wrong' way.
Like retroandvegan I found the Amazon delivery faultless. The cage was slow to be dispatched but once on its way came overnight. The added bonus is that there is a lot of brown paper inside for packaging and I have ripped some off for my Syrian and put it in his play pen and he loves running over it and chewing it up so you also get a free ‘boredom breaker’ for a Syrian too!
A friend made a very good point to me about this duna multy this week asking why Ferplast don’t ditch the mini duna version and put the plastic shelf and ladder into this bigger version. It all makes sense particularly as there are no accessories provided with this cage. Luckily I have lots of spare bits for hamster cages and for my Syrian I have added a shelf to give him another level in his duna multy cage.
Just one last point about the cage if you are ordering this cage from Amazon make sure you choose the Amazon seller as someone else is selling the same cage for nearly £22 more.
And finally, many thanks to soufflé for her excellent instructions to me on how to post photos. This is my first attempt and soufflé – your instructions were perfect! Look out for more photos from me on the forum now I know how to insert photos in a thread!
Ferplast Duna Multy -review
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