SRS/Explorer/Ferret & Critter Nation/Aventura style cages

[HannahF]

I shuffled a couple of bits about and added a few more things, they seem to like it better .

[Linda]

A couple of mine though I am changing it constantly. Can't find the rest of the pics!

[jules]

Making use of what we got pair of jeans with the legs cut off and sewn up pluse hole in the back for easy access, top right corner two residents Fred and Monty...or is it.. Monty and Fred in their fave hammock


and behind the curtain my boyfriends old work vest fleece lined with a hole on top to get snuggled into


Thats my half of an explorer no ladders

[remy the blue rat]

i can't believe i'm writing to say i have an explorer cage,but i am and its brand spanking new.it came today i put it up all by myself

[Yamazumi]

Aventura Cage - home to 8 boys, 3 youngest are 13 1/2 weeks, 2 eldest are 13 1/2 months.

Whole cage



Side view



Top




Bottom




Still feel it's a little bare, but only thing's I have left either won't fit or are hammocks ^_^.

[Rhian33]

My new-ish SRS. Home to 6 rats at the mo. 5 ladies, all over 21 months and 1 nadless lad aged 14 months.

All


Top


Bottom

[HannahF]

I finally decided to go platform free in my explorer





I'm so glad I did it and dont think I'd go back to having a platform in now! Every single thing gets used a lot, even the almost vertical post thing gets used by everyone! I love it and my boys seem to as well!

[MsMongoose]

We have a brand-new cage! We bought an Aventura (basically, a Critter Nation) from EQF a couple of weeks ago, and we're starting to really love it. Here's some rubbish-quality pics sorry, taken on a camera phone, but hopefully you should be able to see the general outline



The top half;



The bottom half;



The disgruntled occupants are waiting for out-time, I think they were'nt impressed with my sense of priorities.

We've replaced the tray-style shelves that came with the cage using several layers of reinforced cardboard covered in sticky-back plastic - unorthodox but it works well, cleans easily, and if we don't like the colour, we can get new ones. They sit in the cage-holder frames (technical word?) much better than the metal ones as well, and don't fill up with 'debris'

We've got some hanging houses on order from snugglebugs which should arrive before xmas, which I'm really looking forward to adding to the cage

[malude]

Latest lay out, home to 9 active boys:


Top half


Bottom half

The pale blue tub at the back is full of substrate for them to dig in

Jenny tube linking the levels


Digging box

[oowie]

[Yamazumi]

The boys current set up. Haven't had the middle section in for quite a while. Hoping to get a larger plastic tub for the bottom this weekend and see what other bits and bobs ikea may have for them.

[Suzanne]

Cleaned the boys cage today.
Top

Middle

Bottom

[oowie]

[HannahF]

Layout before clean out:


New layout, I'll probably shuffle it about a bit as I'm not sure I'm happy with it yet:

[ami_j]

Pics of mine now I am (just about) happy with it, for my does.
Top half



Bottom half




From the outside