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Originally Posted by pinkneon
Serendipity, where did you get yours from?? Although I have a very big cage (especially for the tiny boy I bought home today - read my "excited" thread!) I wouldn't want it to take up most of the space!
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Got mine from Rodipet because at the time they quoted 30cm long size and I didn't want anything bigger. The ones they have now are 20cm I think. Although their sizes are as quoted the branches tend to spread out so it might be 20cm wide as well as 20cm long. I got one to fill a corner in Charlie's old cage as he seemed to feel a bit exposed there, and had it stood on the floor of the cage and wedged up against the corner on the far side of his sputnik, so it was a way into or out of his sputnik. He liked it. At first he climbed up it and sat on the top looking quite pleased. Mostly he'd sit under it or hide a hoard under it. He didn't use that route that often, but it adds a bit of interest maybe.
I'm not sure about them just lying on top of the substrate as they could fall on a hamster if they tunnelled under one, but I thought it was good for a corner, or against a shelf as an alternative thing to climb up or instead of a ladder.
I think they sandblast them to get rid of any grunge on them and clean them up but I still put mine in the freezer in a plastic bag for a few days first - you never know what little tiny things could be living in the wood. You can use google translate to translate the Rodipet pages (mainly useful when ordering). They seem to charge a flat postage fee of about £7, whether it's a small parcel or a large one, so I only order from there if I need more than one thing usually, or unless it's a large thing. It's silly to pay £7 postage for an item that only costs £3. Some of their things are quite reasonable prices, but their shop is a bit too tempting sometimes! I got the cork tunnel (smallest one) from there too because the size is what it says it is!
https://www.rodipet.de/shop/zubehoer...e-ca-20cm.html
https://www.rodipet.de/shop/zubehoer...a-6-10-cm.html
When he first got it
On the left next to the sputnik
I had planned to have it next to the sputnik again in his new cage, or leading up the shelf but couldn't fit it in there so it's on top of the shelf at moment but I think it was better on the floor of the cage resting against the side.