>>1.5 is fine for a mouse set up but an entire waste of a 30 gallon tank. I raise 1.5 s in 10 gal equivalent enclosures. After 5 the male seems to lose the ability to keep up with the girls and you are wasting animals.
>>If this works for you okay. But I like to give my mice enough room to move around in, and have an exercise wheel. also the big tubs don't need to be cleaned every fourth day or less like the little 10 gallon type affairs do.

My mice have a wheel, nest box and water bottle, and I pull at 4 weeks. Not too often they get overcrowded that much. But yes I clean as needed. Cleaning is gonna vary with number of hoppers etc. Some tubs go 5 days or some go 10....I always go by feel. I have the majority of my mice in 12X18 foot print tubs. I like to have a feel of each tub. After 35 years it still is the way that works for me.
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