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| 12.0 inches | | Product Width:
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| 7.5 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.05 pounds | | Package Length:
| 12.2 inches | | Package Width:
| 12.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.05 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
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9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 You get what you pay for...Nov 23, 2010
By Melissa Bernard
I recently moved across the country with several pets including two chinchillas. When we got here; we were staying in a temporary apartment for 30 days while our possessions were being moved and stored so we had to get temporary cages/ pet supplies for the chins. Now, the chinchillas already had two really awesome wheels that are now in storage. One of them is called a "Sage Jasmine" wheel available on Ebay... very hard to find or I would provide a link. It's basically like a giant metal pie plate. The second is the metal version of the "flying saucer" style wheel: [...] . We didn't want to buy another one of these wheels because they retail for about $75 (but well worth it). We decided to buy this plastic one figuring it would do over the next 30 days.
Only one chinchillas has used it (which was expected because only one uses the metal one; that's why we have two different style wheels) but watching her on this plastic version just makes us feel bad. She is in no way overweight, but the plastic bends under her weight and moves at a steady crawl (she can really book it on the metal one). We see her trying to go faster but it just continues to move at a snail's pace. Even with the slow walking, the base would slide across the cage bottom and into the bars. I tried taping it down, but this just made the chinchilla much more interested in getting at that tape so I removed it.
The second big flaw with this wheel is that it easily removes from the base. There is no locking mechanism and my chin realized this after a few days and now all she wants to do is take the wheel off and chew on it, haha. This wheel might work better for lighter weight animals such as rats, but it's not so good for chinchillas. I can't wait to get their metal wheels out of storage, I am sure they're quite bored.
If you have chinchillas, skip this wheel and save up for the metal ones; either flying saucer or the pie plate style. It's really worth it and they'll last forever. The larger metal wheels are also much safer for chinchillas spines, which bend the wrong way on small plastic wheels.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 The best yet!Mar 27, 2011
By DylanTK
This is MUCH quieter than any other running wheel I've ever owned, and I've owned rodents for about 20 years! Even the so-called Silent Spinner used to keep me up at night, but not this. The sound of my rats eating is sometimes louder than the sound they make when running full speed on their saucer wheel. They haven't tried to chew on it, nor have they toppled the saucer from its base. It took about a week for one of them to get used to it, although it's so quiet she may have been using it even sooner while I was asleep. The other still doesn't seem too sure about it, but isn't afraid of it or anything. I would describe myself as a moderately light sleeper, but have not been woken up by this saucer wheel, even though it's about 8 feet away from where I sleep. My only 'complaint' of sorts, is that I think the saucer should be curved a bit more so that the area they run on is at less of an angle. They don't seem to mind the slight angle though, so I wouldn't consider it a flaw. Sometimes when they run really hard on it, it taps against the base a little. This will probably become more pronounced when they get full grown, so that's something to keep in mind for heavier pets if you intend to keep this in your bedroom.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Give it 2 weeks...BUY THE LARGEAug 24, 2010
By jroberts
I have two female rats, and it took them about 2 weeks to get used to it. I was worried at first because they wouldn't get on, but just be patient. After about 2 weeks, I realized that they were running on it while I was sleeping and now I can't get them off! Their old wheel is forsaken and they both love to run as fast as they can on this thing. It does take up alot of cage space, but it's worth it.
It is very easy to clean, comes in 2 pieces (base and saucer), and is as quiet as it could be. The base could be heavier to prevent shifting, but I just use a piece of tape.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Love at first sight!Nov 05, 2011
By A. Zelikman
What a great idea! My hedgie loved it from day one! It's much more fun to watch her run and, a HUGE plus for me, it's super easy to clean!! I definitely recommend this product! I should mention that we only own it for 2 days and I cannot comment on durability, but with so few parts it's hard to imagine what can go wrong :)
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
LoveOct 24, 2011
By Christine Combs
Really great product for my two degus! They love it! It's so quiet and both degus can run at the same time!
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