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Just rehoused my very first old world, and it was a Pokie.
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<blockquote data-quote="Whitelightning777" data-source="post: 158767" data-attributes="member: 26980"><p>The bathtub needed to be cleaned first!!</p><p></p><p>The thing with the older cages is that you only have a 4 inch wide area & the catch cup I use is about 4.5" so those are a no go. I did have catch cups but only if they broke free or crossed the water successfully.</p><p></p><p>If those cages were say 6x6, a catch cup would have been a possibility. Both the old and new cages have sides that are exactly 8" wide & this means you can line them up straight and trick the pokie into running back into something it thinks is the old cage but isn't.</p><p></p><p>I just got them to go random until sooner or later they ended up where they needed to be & they thought that they had successfully escaped but didn't.</p><p></p><p>They also fatigue rapidly. Sure they start fast but quickly exceed the capacity of the book lungs. Worse comes to worse, just run them around until they run out of gas. The CO2 will literally build up in their system and knock them out after a while making them progressively more docile. It didn't see come to that.</p><p></p><p>The only other way to use a catch cup would be to fashion a whole entire lid with a small hole in the side and a larger one in the center. That would let you put the cup on top in the center, a funnel in the side and then flood them out. That could've worked but was just too complex for the amount of time and money I have.</p><p></p><p>& Yes they are fast. I made no attempt to gas or chill them out prior to rehousings. The thing is that the rehousings are all done. That older cage was the sling cage. My first pokie went into that smaller cage at 1" & did great. He went into his new home easily, but I messed up the footage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whitelightning777, post: 158767, member: 26980"] The bathtub needed to be cleaned first!! The thing with the older cages is that you only have a 4 inch wide area & the catch cup I use is about 4.5" so those are a no go. I did have catch cups but only if they broke free or crossed the water successfully. If those cages were say 6x6, a catch cup would have been a possibility. Both the old and new cages have sides that are exactly 8" wide & this means you can line them up straight and trick the pokie into running back into something it thinks is the old cage but isn't. I just got them to go random until sooner or later they ended up where they needed to be & they thought that they had successfully escaped but didn't. They also fatigue rapidly. Sure they start fast but quickly exceed the capacity of the book lungs. Worse comes to worse, just run them around until they run out of gas. The CO2 will literally build up in their system and knock them out after a while making them progressively more docile. It didn't see come to that. The only other way to use a catch cup would be to fashion a whole entire lid with a small hole in the side and a larger one in the center. That would let you put the cup on top in the center, a funnel in the side and then flood them out. That could've worked but was just too complex for the amount of time and money I have. & Yes they are fast. I made no attempt to gas or chill them out prior to rehousings. The thing is that the rehousings are all done. That older cage was the sling cage. My first pokie went into that smaller cage at 1" & did great. He went into his new home easily, but I messed up the footage. [/QUOTE]
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