Ferplast Domster on Amazon uk

[Maz]

The Ferplast Domster cages are now for sale on Amazon. The 120cm one is £245 and the the £100cm one is £220. I was actually very tempted with one of these. It's like an updated version of the Ferplast Karat but a perspex base instead of glass. And the base seems about 25 to 30cm deep. Despite the small doors in the barred section, the top half would be quite easy to lift off I think (if you don't use the shelves and use platforms instead).

However, the fact the frame is wood is what puts me off! If a hamster decided to chew the wood ........ But it looks like a really nice cage/enclosure - part tank base, part barred top. I'd be apprehensive about spending so much on something made of wood though. Having said that, the Living World Eco habitats have always been popular and there has only been the occasional story about someone having to reinforce the inner wood struts with metal brackets for a hamster than tried to chew them.

Ferplast Domster on Amazon

 

[Socks' Mum]

It looks good. The doors are tiny, although there are a lot of them. The width is 50cm in both medium and large models, perhaps the better to fit on top of furniture or to keep the cage inner accessible via the doors. Usable for both gerbils and hamsters I would think, but then the chewing might undo the use for gerbils if the frame is unprotected wood.

 

[Maz]

It says the frame is pine wood and not waterproof - so that would be another tbing. Maybe painting it with plastikote. I did see a photo of a set up one on an Amazon review and it looked slightly different to the interpretation on the advertising photo, in that the top, removable, barred part seemed a lot bigger that the smaller perspex base part. On the ad photo it looks almost half and half so I think that photo must be stretched out a bit.

Having seen how large the top part is, there is no way you'd be wanting to lift that off regularly! But - although it has small doors, the whole roof bars lift out like one big door (a big door with two smaller doors in it).

I don't think they've got the access quite right on this cage. Even if you had it on the floor, or a low coffee table, so you could use the large top door - it would be a very long way to reach down to spot clean!

If you lifted the top half off instead it would be quite heavy if the shelves were used.

If I was any good at diy I would just add my own large doors to the front of cages like this! But I'm not and would probably mess it up ha ha.