ASF tubs(pics)

After advice from Satomi and seeing the sticky for ASF tubs, I dove in and made my own. These are 66 qt tubs. Here are the pics:

Bottom side of lid/feed hopper:
http://i1254.photobucket.com/albums/...psdb04c42f.jpg

Top side of lid:
http://i1254.photobucket.com/albums/...psefe900b2.jpg

To secure the sides better, I used binder clips:
http://i1254.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6a64f30b.jpg

Finished product:
http://i1254.photobucket.com/albums/...ps1203097b.jpg

Checking out their new digs:
http://i1254.photobucket.com/albums/...ps708f5847.jpg

Looks good. The only thing I would recomend is mocing the water bottles to the outside of the cage. With them inside, they may climb on them and chew the tops of the bottles, or climb on them and sit on them while they chew the edges of the tubs. :)

it sucks cause you got them there fancy bottle holders but i put mine on outside too with ASF's. i got some that i built for separating mommas that have different age babies built out of lower height tubs(18 qt) that are also nice to have with a V type wire mesh food hopper so you can lean the bottle in there too. they kinda look like the professional lab cages except a billion types cheaper. shoot me a pm if you want pics

Thanks. :)

So far I've been pretty lucky, they don't go for climbing and hanging out on top of the water bottles in the tanks. They've always climbed the hoppers in the tanks. I'll be adding wheels to the tubs this week which has kept my colonies from chewing.

Nice! I've seen those done before. I'm just leary of rodents in plastic. Chewy little buggers. Keep us posted how they are working.

I did the first one 2 weeks ago and wasn't gonna do more if I started to see chewing or had escapees. The 3 shown here were done over the weekend. I'll probably do 2 more down the road. One for a spare or if i have to breed another rodent and the other as a grow up tub for weanlings.

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