Is using a fish tank for a cage bad?

[Sarah-sore]

I don't think I myself would ever use one, but I was in the shower and I came to thinking is it bad?
I wasn't thinking of a little 5 gallon but what if you got one that was like 500 gallons?

 

[piggyfan]

It is bad as the glass would stop air being able to circulate and it would be a very humid and overheated place for a guinea pig.

 

[Sarah-sore]

It is bad as the glass would stop air being able to circulate and it would be a very humid and overheated place for a guinea pig.

Oh okay that makes sense, would it be bad to put any small animal in a tank?(hamster, mice, rat, degu, gerbil, ect)

 

[Piggie Life]

They use them in pet shops, you often see condensation of the glass so it must be horrible and humid in there.

 

[piggyfan]

Oh okay that makes sense, would it be bad to put any small animal in a tank?(hamster, mice, rat, degu, gerbil, ect)

I believe they are used for mice and hamsters as they are so little they could get between bars of a cage.

 

[Bekki]

A tank style cage can be used for hamsters, mice, multimammates and gerbils :-)

A tank style could be used for a guinea pig if it were like 2ft wide and 6ft long with 1ft sides as airflow would be fine but ive never seen a fish tank with any suitable dimensions.

Rats and guinea pigs cannot be kept in tanks due to having more sensitive respiratory systems, rats in particular are really sensitive.

 

[twiams]

any tank style cage is really bad for the build up of ammonia, and not recommended for piggies (:

 

[Piggie Life]

Yeah defiantly mice as they can contract their bodies to fit into gaps as small as a key hole but I'm pretty sure hamster cages are all wire mesh.

 

[Abi_nurse]

The humidity and ammonia levels in a glass (or plastic) cage makes the piggies in them more likely to develop skin problems. And as others have said they get not much in the way of circulating air.

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