RBI mouse cage 12" x 7.5" x 5.25" ?Originally Posted by Seven-Thirty
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RBI rat cage 18.25" x 12" x 6.25" ?
I'm looking at your cage in relation to the lab blocks, the water bottle, and to a lesser extent the ASF's (cause I don't know if they are full-grown or not) --- sure seems a lot smaller than the cages we got from RBI.
And I see you got the RBI water bottles too. Have you experienced your ASFs turning them? We are using different bottles, our ASFs turn our bottles to the point that if the bottle is not ~3/4s full then the water will not dispense.
We are using these: http://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/pro...er-bottle-8-oz
We have to add a few inches of duct tape on them to hold them in place. Bit of a hassle when they need to be refilled, which is every few days.
Even if you assume that they're all originally from the same colony (even siblings) they can still kill each other if they were not raised together from a young age.
You made a little feed bowl? How's that working out for ya? Before you refill it look around the cage, under the bedding too, for stashed food.
A 1.4 in a 18.25" x 12" x 6.25" is crowded. Look back over the archives on this forum, a 1.2 is generally agreed upon as the best number. Can you get another male and set up another cage with 1.2 in each cage?
You will be "separating 0.2 of the females when one drops a litter"... but you are going to keep >1 in a cage at all times right? Ocassionally we isolate an ASF to its own enclosure. It won't eat. I don't know how long it would refrain from eating cause it's soon feed off, but even a day or 2 of a hunger strike is too much when considering how much slower ASFs grow vs Norwegians.
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