I have a 10 gallon for 2 gerbils and a 20 gallon for the gerbil I'm breeding.
To clean the tanks I dump out everything, but a nest box or two that is too
chewed up and spray the tank with a little bleach mixed with lots of water,
then rinse out the whole thing in the tub. The 10 gallon tank is no problem to
lift. The 20 gallon is a little heavy. It doesn't take a lot of time for
either. What I like about the tank is that it is escape proof, keeps the
bedding in, allows them to build tunnels and play in multi-levels, provides
great viewing, and is easy to access the contents including the gerbils.
In the big tank (when there's no pups -- the pup setup is very boring/safe), I
divide it into two sections with a cereal box (that they climb over) into a
side loaded with bedding to tunnel in and a side for water bottle, food, boxes
to gnaw on and other things to play with. I could put a wheel there, but have
not found a free standing one without slats. For a while I had a little
habitrail with a wheel attached and put it inside the bigger tank (with all the
openings opened). They loved that; but seemed to get tired of the wheel after
a while and did not run in it. So I've taken that out for now.
I've seen the habitrail lids that you can put on top of an aquarium to attach
plastic tubes. http://www.petsmart.com (go to cage accessories). I am wary of
plastic though as a "last line of defense" because I've seen my gerbils chew
right through thick, hard habitrail plastic in no time if motivated to do so.
There are great pictures of gerbil cage setups on the web if you hunt around a
bit. For example,
http://www.maisel.de/~eva/cages2.html
Jamie H wrote:
> Hey again,
>
> Are they good easy to clean? I hear they are bigger and provide more space?
> Is this true? How do you put a wheel in? Tubes?? ETC??
>
> ANSWER ME! ;-)
>
> Thanks,
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