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rat cleaning
how offten do you clean your rat cages im new to having more than one rat and ever since i got 2 more (have 3 now) it feels like i need to clean out the tube every other day
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Re: rat cleaning
What are you using for bedding? Our rats only need to be cleaned once a week or so, and they live in the house.
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Re: rat cleaning
Yep, that's why... newspaper is good for nesting material but horrible for absorbing anything and the rats will urinate/defecate so much that they just trample everything into a liquidy mess.
Aspen shavings work great, are inexpensive, and you should only have to change once a week or so depending on your rats(if they are boys or girls). Tractor Supply or Petsmart/Petco would be your best bet at finding aspen. Please don't use pine or cedar.
Are you breeding them?
--Becky--
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Re: rat cleaning
You might think about switching to a shredded wood bedding I use a mixture of aspen and pine bedding. Also what are you keeping them in. Less air circulation means more funky rat smell LOL.
Last edited by Freakie_frog; 10-09-2007 at 03:47 PM.
When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001? ~ Mark Cuban "for the discerning collector"
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Re: rat cleaning
im am going to breed them i got 3 females i got them realy young so they arnt ready to start breeding yet but they are in a 51qt tub
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Re: rat cleaning
 Originally Posted by evanw72
im am going to breed them i got 3 females i got them realy young so they arnt ready to start breeding yet but they are in a 51qt tub
What kind of top do you have. And Becky is right Pets mart has a 50lb bag of aspen for like 12.00 in the small pets isle. But on the reptile isle they have a .5lb bag for 7.00 do the math. I will warn you rat breeding is addictive. 
And you'll end up like me with tubs full of these guys. 
When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001? ~ Mark Cuban "for the discerning collector"
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Re: rat cleaning
How many snakes do you have? You do realize that females can have up to 20 babies per litter?
Definitely wouldn't be worth breeding them if you only have 1-2 snakes IMHO. I would get them a bigger enclosure. A wire, solid bottomed cage such as a Super Pet cage or an All Living Things 2-3 story cage from Petsmart would work fine. You'll need a much bigger tub and alot of ventilation(the majority of the lid replaced with screen) if you want to keep 3 growing, active females in a tub.
--Becky--
?.? Normals, 1.0 100% Het Pied Classic Jungle, 1.0 Yellow Hypo, 0.1 100% Het Butterscotch Hypo, 0.1 100% Het VPI Hypo, 0.1 100% Het Yellow Hypo, 1.0 Enchi, 1.1 Yellowbellies, 0.1 YB Granite, 1.0 Black Pastel, 1.0 Lemon Pastel, 0.1 50% Possible Het Banded Albino, 0.1 Spider, 1.0 Fire, 0.2 Granite
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Re: rat cleaning
oh ya i no iv been breeding mice for about a year and i dont need as many mice as i use to, so i wanted to get into rats and the news papper seemed to work great with the mice and i did use aspen the first cuple weeks befor i put papper with the rats maybe i need more venolation and go back to the aspen i herd of people using cat litter any of you every use that?
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