New Cage Finally Coming

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WE ARE GETTING A C&C CAGE! Finally! Pepsie and Krull have been living in a pretty large cage (as far as tiny pet store cages go) when I am not home and coming into an x pen whenever I am home for almost 9 months now and we are finally building a c&c. I have purchased all the cubes and connectors, clips and everything I need and am going to pick up the coroplast next Monday. Anyways, it is going to be a cat proof (not willing to risk anything with tom and jerry the cats) 2x3 cage with 3 levels. Each level will be a 2x3 with ramps connecting it and the entire cage will be enclosed. Anyways, I am going to build the ramps out of coroplast but I was wondering what to use so that the pigs can get traction. Preferably something that is not expensive, and not wire. I am not going to use bent grids with fleece ramps because I don't have enough grids. I for sure want to use coroplast but I don't know what to use to give them traction. I was thinking about maybe getting some small sticks from my back yard (pesticide free) and cutting them to size and sticking them on somehow but I don't know if that's the best option. Sorry for the long post but it is so exciting to get a c&c cage back!
 
That sounds great but the bottom level needs to be a minimum of 4 by 2 grids. With guinea pigs it is the floor space that counts not the levels. You may find they will not want to climb. I made a large one level c and c for mine so they can run.
 
Ramps can be made from square guttering like the picture below. A piece of carpet is glued to the inside to stop the piggies sliding.

Although my pigs love their ramp and upper floor I still have a 4x2 grid bottom. None of their stuff would fit inside otherwise!


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you I wanted to make a 2x6 cage with a loft but there is only one location in my house where the cage can go and the biggest cage I can fit is a 2x3 with the levels so that will have to do until I move out and get my own house (have a one year college program to take). It is way bigger than their other cage and they have been in one before with grid and fleece ramps and they were ok climbing. I didn't like that kind of ramp so that's why I'm making a new type. those tube things sound like a good idea, I may check them out. anyways, the pigs would only be in that cage for 6 hours during the day when I am at school and then at night so they will still have plenty of exercise.
 
I've just made ramps with that guttering and cheap carpet tile glues to it. It was simple and my piggies who have never used a ramp before can use them easily. It was also cheap £5.50 fit 2m of gutter and £2.50 for the carpet!
 
I'm sure someone on here has done the maths and a 3x2 c&c is equivelant floor space of a ferplast 120's inside dimensions. Which having both c&c and the 120 cage I could easily believe!
 
A 3x2 c&c is larger than a Ferplast 120. I did the maths recently and the 2x2 is nearer (it's about 2 1/4 by2) the actual size of the Ferplast as the bottom is smaller than huge rest! So the floor space isn't as advertised.
 
As above, I've used the square guttering with carpet tiles cut to fit. I have tried fleece in the past but the pigs find the carpet much easier. I've also got two pigs with 3 legs and they manage to get up the ramp just fine with carpet.
 
thanks I think I will try this idea...we are going to buy the supplies this week and I am going to build everything on Wednesday so I will post pics of the process
 
We have carpet tiles on our ramps too but our ramps are made out of bent C&C grids.
 
3x2 is same length as ferplast but about half the width again! I have a ferplast on stand above a 3x2. A ferplast is about 3x 1.5 ish
 
Yep (sorry the nerd in me had to measure it) it is the smallest bit of the Ferplast 120 tray is 49cm by 109cm (the 120 seems to be the widest bit but that isn't useable floor space as the base is tapered) the C&C 3 by 2 is 72cm by 109cm.
 
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