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Originally posted by: rivan
Originally posted by: Mo0o
There are that many animals that are so low maintenance that you wont have to change its cage on a regular basis. Afterall, it'll need to eat, poop, pee etc.
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Well sure, but the 'every three days scrubbing every inch of habitrail' described above is way too much. Cleaning a cage once a month and a crapper out once a week's just fine.
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Well in that case a hedgehog or hamster would be ok. Although the smell could be a problem so you unless your work area is well ventilated, it's not gonna work. ANother thing you can think about is a turtle. They can live in a regular size fishtank and they're pretty low maintenance, mosto f the time they just sit around and sunbathe
 
So you want a pet that doesn't smell at all. Isn't "gross". Very low maintenance. Can't be fresh water as they are boring, and salt water is too $$$.

Looks like you just ruled out everything.... Guess theres always chiapet!
 
Originally posted by: rivan
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: rivan
Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
If you go with another fish tank, do freshwater, you'll thank yourself later.
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Fresh fish are much easier to handle, and cheaper to boot. No salt creep, either. This might be an option, if we can't come up with anything better.... reading up on hedgehogs now.
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this is going to be the same as a hamster.
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Hedgehogs, you mean?
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You have to watch it with hedgehogs, they can go crazy and attack! I had a friend who had one, we were all sitting abound her house hanging out and the hedgehog was just walking around like it usually did, when all of a sudden it ran across the room and latched on to another one of my friends leg. It had to be pulled off. As soon as the owner let it go, it ran back across the room and bit him again. We never could figure out why the hedgehog picked him out of everyone to attack. He never teased it or was mean to it. Maybe his cologne or deodorant set it off.
Anyhooooo, after that I would not recommend a hedgehog for a cube pet. Imagine bill form accounting walks in to drop off his TPS reports and "AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH" the hedgehog attacks!!!

 
Hedgehogs can be litterbox trained. They're nocturnal, so you may not have a very active pet during the day. They also require a fair amount of space, about the same as a rabbit would require. They're pretty clean pets but they're also illegal in some states.
 
Originally posted by: TheKub
So you want a pet that doesn't smell at all. Isn't "gross". Very low maintenance. Can't be fresh water as they are boring, and salt water is too $$$.

Looks like you just ruled out everything.... Guess theres always chiapet!
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Doesn't smell much, can't offend/scare the chick over the cube wall, can make it over the weekend/long weekends without any problem. Fresh water's not my first choice, but could work - and yeah, my last experiences with (a very large) saltwater tank weren't great, between the salt creep and fish cost.

I'm reading about DIY ant farms now - I wanna make a bigger one than the toy-sized ones I'm mostly seeing for sale.
 
Originally posted by: lightpants
Originally posted by: rivan
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: rivan
Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
If you go with another fish tank, do freshwater, you'll thank yourself later.
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Fresh fish are much easier to handle, and cheaper to boot. No salt creep, either. This might be an option, if we can't come up with anything better.... reading up on hedgehogs now.
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this is going to be the same as a hamster.
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Hedgehogs, you mean?
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You have to watch it with hedgehogs, they can go crazy and attack! I had a friend who had one, we were all sitting abound her house hanging out and the hedgehog was just walking around like it usually did, when all of a sudden it ran across the room and latched on to another one of my friends leg. It had to be pulled off. As soon as the owner let it go, it ran back across the room and bit him again. We never could figure out why the hedgehog picked him out of everyone to attack. He never teased it or was mean to it. Maybe his cologne or deodorant set it off.
Anyhooooo, after that I would not recommend a hedgehog for a cube pet. Imagine bill form accounting walks in to drop off his TPS reports and "AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH" the hedgehog attacks!!!
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Was your friend named Dinsdale? This hedgehog had to be Spiney Norman..
 
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Originally posted by: gwrober
I want one of these...


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You crave stimulation. You crave a Carnivorous desktop plant set. Perfect for the casual office worker who delights in watching insects slowly meet their makers as they are painfully digested by an engaging variety of meat-sucking flora. Nothing quite like it.


That is the most awesome thing ever. In for 2.

OMG...they even have an "action shot" 😀
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oh i want one! not spending $22 though
 
Originally posted by: Lumathix
You don't want a snake because you think it's "stinky" but you want a few hamsters??

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Never kept hamsters - didn't realize until this post they were stinky :|

Originally posted by: DrVos
How about a nice terrarium with a Fire Belly Newt or two? Depending on its size, you might be able to throw a couple of little fish in there
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Those look cool!
 
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Hedgehog.
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Oooh. Good idea. I was gonna say hamster or rat or something, but hedgies are odd, cute, and from what I know, pretty low maintenance.
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hedgehogs are a fairly smelly too, and they are nocturnal.

could just get a beta, they are easy.
 
what about frogs or toads, and freshwater catfish and freshwater tropical catfish are very low maintenance

maybe a combination of some stuff, a tank with fish and some reptiles, like lizards or toads - ones that wont eat eachother of course
 
I once had this thing with shrimp in a completely sealed globe that was a self-contained eco system and besides putting in a good place there was nothing to do at all.
 
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