When I bought my 1st Hamster this past year, he came with the pretty basic lil wire & plastic cage. It was easy to clean, but small & really only had a wheel for 'fun'.
I started looking at the add a piece sets, but the price was always outrageous. At $30+ per piece you could easily run into the hundreds making the finished set you see in the pictures.
I was absolutely thrilled to find this cage at about the cost of just 1 of the other pieces, yet with all the levels included & even a lil carrier to travel with, or place the hamster in while cleaning the cage. However when it arrived I discovered the quality was not really great. The wire walls were so easily bendable that the sides were warped badly, & thus the levels are not very stable & keep falling down. I think this problem would also be fixed if the levels had locking pieces, like the wheel does, to hold them on the wires; but all they have are lil plastic bumps that just sit on the wire, & thus can easily slide off them as well. Until I find a better way to support them, I don't feel safe leaving the Hamster in there when I'm not around; so right now it has become a temporary 'fun time', rather than his main home.
He enjoys playing in it, although ironically he prefers the wheel out of all the features. lol I haven't noticed more noise from the wheel, like some of the reviews say. It's about the same as the one he had before. The travel cage is a little better put together, & is probably the best part of the system. However, the main cage seems like it will be very hard to clean as the walls don't easily pop out without falling apart; since they are not 1 piece, but 3 interlocking pieces. So you basically would have to rebuild the whole thing each time you clean, due to the aforementioned levels not stable issue. As I said, I'm looking on my own to find something to permanently attach the walls together as well as the levels to the walls. Once that is done, then I would whole heartedly recommend this cage as a wonderful activity filled home for any Hamster."..." Read more
- Cleohair in Springfield, MO