Hey guys,

I'm new here . If you have questions, feel free to ask. But I've to warn you, my English is not that good. I'm from Germany.  I thought it might be interesting to see how you keep your rats and on the other hand it might also be interesting for guys to see how we keep our rats.
Here're some pics of my cages:




The meassurements are 180 x 55 cm x 70 cm (I'll have to find out how much that is in inches and feet  )

I bought a quite cheep closet and sew out big wholes in the doors. The bars I fixed are called "Vorsatzgitter" in German actually used by bird breeders, but why shouldn't they be used for purposes other than intended 
Compared to ordinary wire, they are much easier to clean and they're zinc coated. Also, they don't weigh much and this is only my personal opionion: they look much better than ordinary wire 

The whole closet is lacquered of course. The floors have got holes which allow rats to go from one floor to the other.

What makes the closet a good cage is, that the rats have got much space in it. They can run, climb and play. Also it is quite easy to clean, you simply wipe the floors out. For a while, 10 rats lived in it.

To be honest: the closet has got some cons too. The two doors are much too big. If you open one door, half of the cage is open and some nasty ratties will escape. Even if you clean the cage regularly you can't avoid that it'll stink like hell after only a few years. But on the other hand, such closets are not that expensive, so it won't kill you, if you by a new one in two or three years.

I'm not a friend of wire cages at all (this is only my personal opinion) and I'm convinced that rats like living in closets much more than in ordinary wire cages or aviaries.

That's why I bought a special designed rat cage and replaced my old closet by an UNIDOM:



Here’s a description of my special rat cage called “Unidom”, which is a consistent alternative to wire cages. I've to mention that I don't like wire cages at all, but this is only a matter of personal taste and interest. Unidoms can be integrated in your living room perfectly ‘cause you’re able to choose your favorite color. The color I chose is red (RAL3011). What I love so much are the six doors. You can open one door (it doesn’t make any noise, by the way) and you can “work” in the cage without waking the rats, and the best: you can lock the doors with keys! The doors can be removed easily. Also, the unidom is made of a material which can’t be destroyed by the rats. You can remove the floors and simply clean them with hot water. Dirt is easily removable because it doesn’t stick on the floors and stairs. Speaking about stairs: they can also be removed so cleaning the cage is really very easy. There’s enough area for the rats to run and play and hammocks and other “furniture” can be fixed as well. There are louvers which guarantee a good air circulation.

An unidom has got 100 more considerable advantages compared to ordinary wire cages and only some little disadavantages (I must always grumble )

Ok, this should be enough information about my unidom for now. If you have questions, feel free to ask.

You can get the unidom in several versions, just ask the producer. If you’d like to see more examples of that wonderful cage, than click HERE: http://www.uni-dom.de/html/privathaltung.html

Please feel free to send me an Email or private message if you have questions 

CU

My 2 males cage:


My two females cage(I'm buying a new one because that one is too small in my opinion even though its only 2 girls):


My cages together(note: the two bottom cages are hamster cages so dont worry lol):

heres my 2 cages the first one is for my babies with the female that loves being with them, she'll take other females litters if she gets the chance, this is only about half the cage




heres the other cage I have, for my 2 older females

It's not so great yet, but it's hard to find stuff to decorate with. So here is my work in progress:

I only have the one little girl at the moment. This is the top level.



Still near the top there is one half shelf above this one.



The the lower level. I have the wheel secured so it wont move with the Tunnel and other bindings. Its welded onto the cage and I cant get it out.

I got this cage off of Kijiji for 200 dollars.  It's huge!  Big enough for 8 rats, but I don't know if that'll ever happen.   It's super easy to clean and the bottom is grated so any extra waste falls off their floor mats.  I have three rats in this one at the moment, two mismarked siamese, and bareback spotted dumbo double rex boy.  Soon to be added in are my new two fellas, currently in two combined rabbit cages, two rex dumbos, one also bareback and spotted, and the other masked.  Never underestimate buy and sell sites!  I have a living world hanging hide, all kinds of hammocks and a couple baskets, and I just bought an 8 piece fleece Madwzl set from eBay for the winter.  All cloth bedding, and YN in the litterpans.

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Latest picture of our cage set-up

Here are some preliminary pix of my boys' Feisty Ferret home.  I'll be making liners, but for now they are using towels.  I also have some cubes on order from wonderrodent.   I'll post more pix when I do the updates.

Whole cage:


Bottom floor (well, part of it):


Top floor:

That's my new cage. :3 It's ment for Chinchilas but my 3 girls have SO MUCH room in it.
There's two Hammocks that I made, Cat ball toys with bells in them that's scattered everywhere, some ball thing at the top that i put treats in, a food bowel, two water bottels, a litterpan, some wood thing, and that's it.

I plan on adding some more fun things in there once I get some money.

Here's my cage with a few different set-ups

The cage with the mesh: Milly is still to small for the cage ^_^



Sorry I know you can't see inside very well.