Tips to keep the smell down?

[Tzeentch]

What are some things you guys do to keep the mice from smelling too funky?

[llovelace]

I add vanilla to their water bottles, also I spot clean the urine corners every other day.

[Raptor]

Pine horse pellets. Shavings build up ammonia quickly and that's what makes the smell.

[ice#1]

time release air-freshener glade plug-ins and often substrate changes and i only got 7 cages of mice. but soon needing more

[blackcrystal22]

Pellet bedding.

I wonder if vanilla in the water actually does anything??

[CoolioTiffany]

Also keeping a thing of cheap coffee stuff on top of the cage catches in the smell of the mice so it lowers down the smell a whole lot. So basically un-made coffee stuff in those light paper bowl things you put in coffee makers. Couldn't find the words to explain it at the moment, that's the best I could do LOL.

[Raptor]

Pellet bedding.

I wonder if vanilla in the water actually does anything??

I've tried vanilla but haven't noticed much of a difference. The pellet bedding works wonders though.

[suzuki4life]

vanilla works some but it will slime up the internals of your bottles and lead to bacterial issues unless you plan to boil your bottles periodically.

The pellets are okay, but it doesn't give them a good nest. some females won't nurse without a proper nest where they feel safe

Coffee or perfume deodorizers mask the smell but you can also just use a bar of Irish Spring soap to do the same thing.

Basking soda applied under your bedding with help with smell, deodorize, AND will reduce the bedding sticking to your tub or tank. A light dusting is all you need. Anything you can dump out once applied is too much, remove it.

[Raptor]

The pellets are okay, but it doesn't give them a good nest. some females won't nurse without a proper nest where they feel safe

And that's why you add toilet paper, paper towels, cardboard tubes, or shredded paper. To be honest, the females can make a perfectly fine nest in the pellets.

[ice#1]

wont vanilla get them drunk i know it will if a human drinks it.

just thought of another way get an air purifier or put a lil bit of activated carbon under bedding or on top of cage (will work best if you can have air pushing threw the carbon

would have to make some kind of hood that covers what the mice are in then use an in-line duct fan to draw the air threw the activated carbon no smell for quite some time would have to still clean cages like usual but no smell until the filter is used up or the fan goes off maybe even build a rack with built in air filtration so only time you get a smell is when rack is opened up or filter gets mostly used up