Hey guys,

Quick update before the glass arives. The cage is finished now, I'm just adding the final furnishings. This is a picture of the vivarium in place and ready to go.

 

While the cage is being set up and prepared the degus are living in a make-shift pen in my room.

Im still looking for some decent branches and logs to put into the cage, im attaching some small shelves and ledges at the moment. When you build your vivariums, try not to throw anything away! You can make some cool extra ledges and things from offcuts and spares. Below is a picture of what I made out of my offcuts:

Offcuts

 

 What you can Build!

To join these together, I used Gripfill. I don't usually agree with using glues and pastes to fix things together in a degu cage as they do like to chew and I'm worried they will ingest the glue. However, in this case I ran out of budget. I have glued them in a way so the joins are not easily chewed, I will also be monitoring thier chewing; if I see them taking a special interest they will be immediately removed.

Thanks for reading everyone! And to finish a quick picture of the new baby, hes about 7 weeks at the moment.

Smithomatic :)

Degus getting ready for bed

Hello,

I just wanted to share this video with all of you, its a video of my degus getting ready for bed time after a play. I have had it sat in my computer for ages and never released it. The cage in this video is the one they used to live in, back when I made this post. The video also gives a bit of an idea of my old cage set up.

Degus featured are Chewy and Scut

Enoy! :)

Glass has been orderd!

Hey everyone,

The glass has now been orderd should be here in the next 3-4 days. I have also managed to give the garage a huge clean out, so I will be able to get some better snaps of the set up. Also I am hopeing there will be enough space on the floor in front of the cage to create a run for them.

The glass is more much more expensive than PVC windows, I will display in a future post why PVC may be unsuitable for many cages. My current degu cage uses PVC, I bought one large sheet from Wickes and cut it to size my self. You can see the PVC I used here http://www.wickes.co.uk/acrylic-sheet/invt/210002/. Unfortunately I could not find a link to the same material in BNQ however I do know that they sell it and that it is cheaper there.

I ordered my glass from Roman Glass (http://www.romanglass.co.uk/), they have a fair few outlets across the UK. When you order the glass, be sure to ask for it Edged and Toughened, this will strengthen the glass so that if it does break it will be in large peices (not the dangerous spikes and dust that some glass smashes into). Having it "edged" will also help it to slide in its runner. The total cost for my 4 peices of glass was £120.00 inc. VAT.