Originally posted by luckies4me
Can you explain to me what exactly makes the Superpet cages hard to clean? I have my 5 boys in a Multi Floor Ferret cage and I find it to be the easier cage to clean I have ever owned in my whole life. It rinses incredibly easy, and I never have to scrub it because nothing ever sticks to it. I always had to scrub my Martins cages because the feces stuck to the bottom, and it always held their fecal and urine smell, which was not pleasent. My Supetpet cage takes me all about 5 minutes to rinse all the levels and the bottom. It's truly fantastic!

first off the doors were quite small so its kinda hard to get your arm in there (on a big cage) to clean everywhere, also large ferret type litter boxes dont fit in the doors, neither do large boxes and such. And as mentioned the shelves were sometimes hard to take apart to clean & if you left them in there to clean them it was hard to get the grooves clean.

mind you this was years ago when i had one, they may have changed a little & may be ok for rats now. I know a LOT of people that have ferrets & they really dislike even the brand new models.




I personally dislike Martins cages very much. They are one of the cheapest rat cages, or small animal cages for that manner, that is on the market, and it's very sad they are so sought after and that people don't know better just because it's word of mouth and the "fad" right now. Their cages are extremely cheap, their wire bends so easily, and they don't do much for odor control even powder coated as their feces always manage to get stuck to the bars, and getting them off when you can't reach every nook an cranny is a big pain. Their coating flakes off extremely fast, and if you have a chewer get ready for major flakes and stink. I got rid of my Martins cage the first chance I could, and will NEVER get another. In fact, they are going on my cage list as NOT recommended. And to think I spent $126 bucks on them too.

I picked my martins cage right up at martins, they put it together for me for free! So that was not an issue for me! I have had my martins rat cage for 5 years now & no odor, still easy to clean, its not dented or anything. The floor pan is metal not plastic & it just started top get a tiny tiny speck of rust, thats why im looking into getting a new one shotly (one with a plastic bottom) . But even with the metal bottom i never had a problem w/ feces being stuck to it. They do chew the coating a bit but i am really suprised that 5 years & about 15-18 rats later they is not much wear on them.
as far as being a "fad" right now golly geese i have know these to be popular for at least 16+ years since i was first introduced to small animals (besides hamster & gebils that i raised for years before that)


there are many good cages out there & to each their own. its just that i like matins & never had a problem with them. I also have 2 midwest cages for my ferrets (i did some remodeling & combined the 2) but they are ussually not great cages at all but I got it to work great for me, personally i like it better than most ferret cages.