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Old 04-16-2022, 09:23 AM   #21
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This is another 100cm option. The Ferplast Maxi Duna Multy. It's a perspex tank style and a safe cage and height. Doesn't have any front opening doors but it does have a very large door in the roof. So good access inside the cage and as it's a long cage your arm could go in at an angle so it's not so much like a hand coming from above. I do find the plaza front door not wide enough to get into both ends of the cage.

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Old 04-16-2022, 09:31 AM   #22
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If money was no object, I would like one of these . Front doors and a top opening roof. Secure.

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Old 04-16-2022, 09:53 AM   #23
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If money was no object, I would like one of these . Front doors and a top opening roof. Secure.

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There's one for sale in my area for £80 but it is very heavy to move downstairs from seller, down a steep drive and upstairs here so had to give it a miss. The weight and portability is something to consider with tanks.
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Old 04-16-2022, 10:09 AM   #24
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It's interesting - when I first came on here, people thought robos should only live in tanks for safety. There were very few narrow bar cages and they could get injured via falls in barred cages. Then it seemed ok to put them in a 6 or 7mm mouse spacing barred cage if it was low. Now people are keeping them in 1cm barred cages (but I think some of that is luck with robos not attempting to get through 1cm bars). I am still a bit iffy about 1cm bars. The Plaza is 0.9cm which is a bit better.
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Old 04-16-2022, 10:10 AM   #25
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There's one for sale in my area for £80 but it is very heavy to move downstairs from seller, down a steep drive and upstairs here so had to give it a miss. The weight and portability is something to consider with tanks.
Yes the weight is a downside although probably wouldn't need to be moved often.
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Old 04-21-2022, 07:12 AM   #26
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I got the savic plaza.

I got a russian dwarf hamster, he is very shy.
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Old 04-21-2022, 07:39 AM   #27
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That wheel is temporary, waiting on an 11 inch trixie wheel being delivered.
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Old 04-21-2022, 07:53 AM   #28
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Enjoy putting it together lol! I just got one as well and thankfully there was nothing broken. It's not that difficult to put together.

For a dwarf hamster you'll need to either make a full level, or raise the substrate to reduce the actual height - I put 8" high cardboard round the inside of the bars and had deeper substrate.

If you're going to use the green shelf I would do something to fill in the holes round the edge of the shelf. Luna stuffed bits of paper substrate in the holes. I've never heard of it being a problem but I do wonder if a hamster could get a foot caught in those big holes.
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Old 04-21-2022, 07:54 AM   #29
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Wow lucky russian dwarf with an 11" wheel! At least he shouldn't be able to spin round the top in that.
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Old 04-21-2022, 07:55 AM   #30
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Actually I like the idea of a full level in this cage but I get too impatient with diy.
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