At home depot look INSIDE near all the screens and lumber. Ask an employee to help, it's called hardware cloth.

Yea I went around today and still couldn't find any, apparently its been on back order for about 3 years in hope depot when I asked today. I can get it shipped to ACE, but it will be at least 2 week before I get it. I'm gonna check a few hardware stores when I go down to Chatanooga this weekend and see if they might have some. Otherwise I might just have to come up with something else----not that I can think of anything that wil work thats not expensive.

I lost one out of the cage and she's the biggest dumbo in there---so if she can get out....we know thw rest can. I put them all back in the old cage which broke me because I spent about 3 hours setting up the new one AFTER I had built it. I kinda knew it would happen anyway, but oh well. At least I didn't break the old one down yet, but I will need it in 2 weeks for some baby double rex's I'm rescuing. SO the quicker I can get this stuff the better.

LOL yea I noticed that about home depot. they were kinda clueless---I SWEAR I found it somewhere in the past and said to myself "remember that they have this, you'll need it at some point".



Of course



I forgot.

LOL, I think my mom would hit me if I said that to her! She's sensitive about her age 

I caved and just bought the galvanized stuff. I can't sit there anymore and stare at a empty FN (tho frankies in the bottom of it right now). I got 2 rolls of the 24"x 10ft I hope thats the right stuff.

I know I'll have to replace it, but I'm sure I'll be able to find some real stuff down the line. Somewhere.


Yea with all of the stuff that keeps happening to me I forget stuff pretty easily. One emergency after another. *sigh*

I'm going to be really watchful after I put them in it too, since everyone been having issues w/ FN's recently.

Question- for those of you with covered FN's, how do you clean the wire? I haven't had to take my non-covered one outside yet because it simply doesn't get stuff caked on it. But with covered, I'm assuming the pee and poop would build up.

Do you ever have a problem with the rats trying to stick their heads through the FN bars since the wire is on the outside?

Ugh.. I suck at this sort of thing. How many 24"x5' rolls would I need if I cover the bottoms too?

Thank you so much for the tutorial!  I am off to OSH to pick up my hardware cloth and zip ties because I am joining the FN club!  My wonderful sister couldn't stand that I was making her niece wait for an FN so she ordered one for us and it is set to arrive next week.       I am sooo excited, but very nervous about the modifications.

Thanks Elaina!  I PMed you.

I took a trip to Home Depot today to see if I could find the hardware cloth. I managed to find it outside in the garden section, with the fencing and stuff. They didn't have the green coated wire, only the non-coated. Might they have put the coated somewhere else? Any suggestions on WHERE they might have put it? lol. Also, has anyone found this stuff at Lowe's by any chance?

Lol, well considering that I'm in Florida, I can't really go to OSH, unfortunately. Thanks anyways though. A spool of wire might be better than zip ties...Hmm.

Eee! Maybe I should stick with zip-ties after all... I'm beginning to think these things hold the whole world together.