I barely caught a little escapist before he chewed a big enough hole in one of my tubs last week. I looked at the rest of the tubs and it turns out that most of them have been nibbling on that hole. I ended up doing the same thing you did with the hardware cloth, minus the plastic zip ties. Seems to be working okay so far. Definitely not a big enough hassle to keep 1K rats in glass tanks!
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