I really really would love a Detolf for my mice but unfortunately I don’t have mice so that plan is foiled

@nesnahprotsdam

4 жыл бұрын

You could just leave food scraps outside your door for a few weeks. I'm sure it will attract something, maybe not mice, but something! Good luck!

@rat-tastic422

4 жыл бұрын

Murricath Thanks for the advice, but I’m not planning on getting mice as I have rats and love them dearly (I’m more of a rat person than a mouse one - although, don’t get me wrong, I still like mice) I think I’ll stick to getting pets from breeders or rescuing rather than attracting wild mice to keep as pets - I don’t think that’s my way of doing things :) but thank you anyway!

@thewheekly8

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Rat tastic!!! ❤️ how are you today?

@AbisAnimals

4 жыл бұрын

Rat-Tastic Hi 👋🏼

@rat-tastic422

4 жыл бұрын

The Wheekly hi! I’m good thanks! How about you?

11:09 the mouse in the background sliding down the bar is so cute

@ShyHandArt

4 жыл бұрын

*SoMbOdY cOmE gEt 'Er 👏* *ShE dAnCiN' liKe A sTrIpPeR 👏*

I am from Sweden and I think you say the word "detolf" pretty good. I don't even know what it means in Swedish. The other things at IKEA has name like "samla" (collect) but detolf?! NO IDEA XD

@pipriver2100

4 жыл бұрын

I think its something like display? I'm not entirely sure tho tbh I haven't really spoken swedish since I was abt 12 so

@alextheawesome94

4 жыл бұрын

As a fellow swede it just sounds like a gibberish word tbh. And it's not in any dictionaries or anything.

@thisistinnytrying

4 жыл бұрын

AlbmiGames I think it’s some old Swedish word for displaying what is shiny or something

I’m building an enclosure with similar floorspace for my future mouse soon :D

I have been doing SOOOO much research to upgrade my two girls to the detolf and possibly expand the family. Here you come with this fantastic video!! My prayers have been answered lol

@lexiekret9765

4 жыл бұрын

me to! i’m buying the detolf tonight for my 2 girls and i plan on expanding my group!

@may8050

7 ай бұрын

I would definitely recommend getting more than two mice next time because if one of them dies then the other one might be lonely for quite some time❤

Early is my favourite word when it comes to your channel!!!

@kdawg7060

4 жыл бұрын

I do!

“Such as pole dancing...” pics or it didn’t happen, Emi! 🤣😘

I’ve been binge watching your channel recently as I am getting two rats in a few weeks! Thank you so much for all the advice and help!

Some people make a domed lid for the detolf to add height. Love your set up and your mice.

We love pole dancing mice ahhh so cuteee

Great review! One other con I can think of: the only access point is through the lid, rather than having doors on the front. If the Detolf is on a standard height shelf or dresser, one must stand on a step stool in order to scoop out bedding and clean the cage, which can be awkward and potentially dangerous (if one falls glass can break, etc.). It seems like having the only door be on top might be a problem for some folks, unless they keep it on the floor or a shorter piece of furniture...

@LuluTheCorgi

2 жыл бұрын

thats why it pairs so well with the kallax, perfect height for viewing and cleaning and a bunch of storage space for treats, food and accessories

Yesss! The Detolf is such a good option, my females love it. They always run up to me using there ropes and the grey support rods (in the Detolf), its super cute but it can be a bit scary having them all try to escape outside using me as a climbing frame! (I don't want to lose or squish one).

I have a detolf for my two girls and they love it. Right now there's some bare stretches of space because *they've buried all the things * but that'll be remedied during the next cleaning. I can also say that having few mice on that space calls for even less cleaning. But either way cleaning the cage is easy and quick and cleaning of all their things honestly takes longer than cleaning the cage itself.

You are really helpful when it comes to rats you have helped me provide my rats with the best life possible.

I love your videos for Rats and mice! I start getting mice four years ago thanks to your recommendations and suggest! I really want a Detolf IKEA but for now I don't have that space, but I'm building a plexiglass enclosure 100×50 cm for my 4 girls. I think it's good enough space 😊

Your enclosure is so aesthetic and I love it 😍

I'm getting 2 little baby rats so happy! (For anyone asking i"m getting them from a rescue. so no need to worry about rat farms)

I’ve got a detolf for my girls love your cage set up your mice are sooo lucky !

🤣Pole dancing, love it.

First Hi from Luna 💜🐀 and Laura ❤️🐀

I have a detolf for my hamster and I love it! Hope you recover from the coronavirus soon emi. 💕

At 11:09 look at the pole on the left Mouse:Fire? I'm a fire girl now weeeee

Very informative if I do Decide to get mice! But right now I have 8 rats and that's enough for me😂💕

@AbisAnimals

4 жыл бұрын

Rat Tails Hi Rat Tails 👋🏼

This is really helpful! Love your videos!

I personally am not a huge fan of the detolf for mice simply due to its height. My girls love to climb so I like using a wire cage for them. The detolf doesn’t give the opportunity to provide a deep layer of bedding as well climbing opportunities. I use a skyline barney cage for my girls and it’s perfect as I can fit a lot of bedding in it as well as lots of hanging toys.

The day I convince my mom I’ll buy this

:D love you're videos, also you're channel is growing so fast!

I am looking for an enclosure for my 3 girls and I think this would be perfect thank you❤ I love your videos, they help me so much with my mice and stuff thank you emi!!! ❤❤❤

i’m getting me detolf tomorrow !! and then i’m going out and buying some mice some time next week ! 🥺

I'm thinking of getting one for my 3 mice, Penny, Pepper and Pebble.

When your mom hates mice but she told you if It can live in your detolf you can get it 😂

if you're a talented builder you could also build a lid that goes up before closing to create more vertical space

The fact that you love your animals is so amazing. Coming from me, having loads of animals, they soon came to an end. But otherwise that, your mice and rats are beautiful, gorgeous. It’s a smart decision to use different coats to tell them apart, and to separate them. My cage is a very big enclosure. (I don’t know the size by heart, sorry!) I actually used to use household items for the dishes, but some of my mice had actually choked on them, so I saved up money and bought loads of stuff for mice. It’s based on nature like your tank, and it’s inspired. I have 5 mice per tank, their categorized by sex. Anyways, I hope you see this and I want you to stay safe, stay well, and goodnight/goodmorning/good afternoon!

I love my detolf for my mice 😊 thank you always for your videos! I always enjoy watching you & you gave me the idea of adopting my three mice a year ago :) they are so precious

Ahh my hamster chewed that hole too, I didn’t see the hole when I was making it and he obviously didn’t know it was the end of the cage and just saw something to chew, I was very shocked, he chewed it a lot more than that thou, I still need to fix it but I found that just slotting in a bit of thick sturdy cardboard stops him from chewing the hole because- there is nothing for him to get his teeth around, instead he has finally used his chew toys, but I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who had the hole chewing problem

A tank topper to fit a detolf would be amazing. I think I'd like to have mice but I have alot to figure out first so I'm just learning what I can.

You can make the detof taller by basically just attaching legs to the lids 4 Legs per lid, put the same mesh you have at the top between the legs, tho you might have to add a bottom (copy the lid without the mesh) so they cant escape on the sides i dunno how you would attach a hinge too that but you can just lift it up and off the detof, shouldnt be too heavy

Just me that realised 2 of the mixes tails were linked together🥺

For me with mice I think I’d find that I wouldn’t be able to fit enough bedding as I like to put at least a foot for my 5 mice and in my opinion they need considerably more height, my mice currently live in a converted wardrobe though I’m thinking of upgrading them again, I also have two mice living in a “rat” cage, I find it too small for rats but it’s a little bit bigger than the Freddy rat cage, they do pretty well in there and I could probably keep about 5 mice in there, I’d also think 7 mice in the detolf is somewhat overcrowded. I had 5 mice in a barney pet cage and felt it was too small for them all.

I use for my hamsters and mice care is the preview 528 cage they're good for hamsters but I have seen a lot of mice owners for their mice in there so I kind of want to try it and see how I feel about it when I get my own mice

What do you feed your mice? I’m struggling to know as there’s so much advice out there x

"Take a shot every time I say Detolf." Hahaha We would die. 😂☠️

Haha when opal? Or pearl? Tried eating your finger at 6:31 😂😂🙌

loved this video it helped so much as i’m gettin move for xmas, also would this be ok for around 3-4 mice or is it too larger srry if that seems like a stupid question 😂💞x only ever owned hamsters x

@Emiology

4 жыл бұрын

It would be good for 3-4 mice just pack it full of toys ☺️

It's crazy I have a 3 SQ. Foot cage that I made my dad build me for my 4 females 😂😂

You can make lids so it’s tall!

If i was to use this for mice i think I would create a dome lid to create more hanging space.

I see them in oak all the time , so maybe it's just you / they stopped making it recently ?

I have A question I have four detolfs stacked on top of each other with DIY levels so my mouse can get to all of the level do you think that is too much space for him.

@pebble_pearl_9075

4 жыл бұрын

BananaMilk Ls your mouse living better than me 😂😂

@mike64ls65

4 жыл бұрын

Yah it’s like three years of babysitting to get enough money for his cage

@pebble_pearl_9075

4 жыл бұрын

BananaMilk Ls 😂

@x01x0_

4 жыл бұрын

no such thing as too much space!

@moniquegroos2388

4 жыл бұрын

it’s not too much space at all! however my only concern would be that because the detolf is made out of glass it might lack the necessary ventilation when they’re stacked on top of each other!

hi em my two mice olive and lucky are living in an Ikea detoIf! from Tessa

they used to do oak but for some reoson stopped

I would get the Detolf but I’m on a budget of $100 and it’s $139 where I live

I have one but I’ve got a hamster is mine xxx

Hi! i have two mice and they're both terrified of me, like- as soon as they know im in my room, they hide and i dont know what to do

don't have a rodent, but tempted to make a glass cage.

I used to just keep one of my mice on my desk (no cage)

@thecoolestcowboy

4 жыл бұрын

omg.

i have 3 mice, they are very young but one of them has deformed back legs, we think she is the runt because she is so small and isn’t growing, she is very weak and slow. her name is Pickle. Do you have any tips for that?

@catcat9582

3 ай бұрын

What happend to pickle :(

@musicenjoyer11

3 ай бұрын

@@catcat9582 she died about a week after i posted that… she was happy though. she loved oats, and she fell asleep peacefully in her food bowl surrounded by oats. 😂

Im swedish and I dont think detolf is a word😂👍

I was just wondering if you had any tips on pursuading your parents on letting you get mice as i would really love some mice but (due to previous pets i had when i was 7-10 years old*) i am now 13 and they wont even let me get some even if i will pay for it myself. * when i was 7 i got some fish but due to being so young my dad ended up looking after them then when i was ten i got some guinea pigs and again dad ended up looking after them (sadly one of my guinea pigs got ill and passed away when i was at school the other one became really sad so we gave her to my friend who has 8 guineapigs and she is doing really well) due to this my mum and dad are very persistant on not allowing me to get another pet.

@moniquegroos2388

4 жыл бұрын

Diane Mannion Your best bet it to just do as much research as possible and continue to show your parents that you’re very interested in owning mice! This will probably take time but it’ll be worth it!

@dianemannion5902

4 жыл бұрын

@@moniquegroos2388 thanks I'll try my hardest

She mentioned tutorials for building the lid but i don't find them. Could anyone link some? Thank you!

They are $222.95 in US .

That's brilliant!!

Lol pole dancing. Cool mice btw.

To be honest, with mice, bar spacing doesn’t matter. As long as the cage is on something 3 feet tall or higher they won’t jump off (I would recommend them being at least 8-12 weeks old before doing this)

I love pole dancing mice

I really really want a rat soo baddddddd But my gerbils have to die first :( Could you maybe do a video on gerbils to help me out?

@Emiology

4 жыл бұрын

You’d need at least two rats. I don’t have any interest in gerbils but there’s plenty of resources out there you can use

@rat-tastic422

4 жыл бұрын

Neko the cat - why don’t you enjoy the time you have with your gerbils instead...?

@nekothecat8418

4 жыл бұрын

@@Emiology tysm! And I'm planning to get 3 rats! 😁

@nekothecat8418

4 жыл бұрын

@@rat-tastic422 yeah.. that's why I asked for help to let them have the best life 😁

I’m betten the same cage today :) but do mouses need a sand bath? Cuz I do have it but they don’t really use it

Can u use big bird cages as rat cages?

@Emiology

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

How do you attach a water bottle to the cage i need help with that especially

@Emiology

Жыл бұрын

Industrial Velcro

Detolf isn't even a word in Swedish so I think you're fine when it comes to pronouncing it

@Emiology

4 жыл бұрын

Oh interesting, I thought most Ikea products meant something!

@a.Sunbell

4 жыл бұрын

@@Emiology no, most of them are just gibberish lol

@torismyth6975

3 жыл бұрын

Ones called billy😂😂

I just got my mice 2 months ago and I have a barred cage . The bedding is everywhere around my room and it is super hard to excess 🙄 It sucks that I paid 50 £ on a cage ....and now I kinda wanna get the detolf . Do you think it’s worth switching or do I wait a few more month and upgrade then ? 🥴

How big should a wheel be for a mouse? I wanna get a silent spinner but I’m not sure the size to get for my future mouse.

My mom said she'd build it with my dad if I buy it. :D I'll use it for my current hamster and maybe in the future I'll get a group of mice :) edit: hi 2 months later hammy has passed and I have a group of girls in this. works wonderfully!

The kallax has 8 storage units on it-

Hi, I have 2 male rats well I had 2 one of them just passed away, and we are getting another so he won’t be on his own is there a pacific way to get them to like each over and is there a age limit to getting another?

@Lubitrash

4 жыл бұрын

you should check out shadow the rat's videos on how to introduce rats, I followed her method and everything worked great. Also you probably know this but just in case please don't just put them in the cage together, that's really dangerous

@MyPerfectMischief

4 жыл бұрын

As long as the remaining rat is still generally healthy, then it should be okay to bring in a new rat. Introductions are stressful and if your remaining rat isn't in great health, you could compromise it greatly. I would recommend getting 2 more rats (especially if you're getting babies, which are the easiest to introduce). As already mentioned, intros are stressful, and the babies can go to each other for support. Also, babies have A LOT of energy, while an older rat will have less. The babies will play with each other, but if there's only one, then it will likely annoy the heck out of the older rat. My go-to intro method is the carrier/small space method. I've used it successfully 5 times now. I found that Google was actually more helpful with the details than any video on KZread, but definitely check out both.

I have 60 gallon tank (it's tall) how many female mice do you think I could keep in there? I don't want a lot of mice but I'm curious what is appropriate.

I’d love to get this for my mice, but I’m kind of confused. Do you just leave the shelves out when you’re building it? How does that work?

@Emiology

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, they’re just glass panels that slide in so you don’t need to put them in or the door

@early.autumn.summer

3 жыл бұрын

Emiology awesome thanks so much!

Can someone pls reply with the measurements for a rat cage I’m collect info but I don’t know what cage I should gets without being to small I want to get two rats

Will my hamster get enough ventilation if I use the original glass door? Please answer❤️

@Emiology

3 жыл бұрын

No you need a mesh lid

I have three mice. They live in a kallax that me and my dad built (mostly my dad). Me made bridges to the upper level and holes in the sides. You can see one of them in my profile picture🐭 It’s three guys. They are my first mice and I know that guys often fight but mine are very friendly and cuddly towards each other I’m very happy about that. I have a plan b if they do start fighting. The brown one in the picture is Egon Olsen from a danish movie(I just call him Egon) The Second is albino🐁 and is named Alvin like Alvin and the chipmunks🐿(my little brother named him) And the thrird one is albino🐁 too and is called Viggo (my friend Victoria named it) I love them very much❤️🐭❤️ (wow that’s a long comment)

what type of bedding do you use? (also i think you forgot to link the lid tutorials in your description haha)

anyone know any other units to put under it for cheaper?

I'm seriously considering doing this, but how did you hang the water bottle?

@Emiology

2 жыл бұрын

Industrial velcro!

hi emi! do you have any tips on introducing 2-3 mice to an established duo of girls? i’ve heard it can be harder to introduce new friends to 2 girls but idk how true that is

A detolf is way better than paying $100 for a cage smaller than a detolf.

Can a single degu go it ?????????

@lewisarthur3232

4 жыл бұрын

Daisy TG no it’s not got enough height for a degu, for a degu you’d need a much taller enclosure

@fiveratsinatrenchcoat4408

4 жыл бұрын

Noooo degus are 1. Social so you shouldn’t keep them alone ever and 2. This is absolutely to small for even 1 degu they need lots of height.

@rat-tastic422

4 жыл бұрын

Degus prefer hight over floor space (although they do still need lots and lots of floor space!)

would this make a good leopard gecko tank?

How do you do the lid?

would the detolf be okay on a carpet?

@Emiology

4 жыл бұрын

It needs to rest on something on the glass and not on the wooden ends otherwise the glass will bow in the middle and crack

@Limxnii

4 жыл бұрын

Emiology okay thankyou

Do mice free roam like rats?

What bedding do you use for your mice

@athyawa

3 жыл бұрын

Sara Graham thank you so much. I thought this would never get answered.

Is it ok for 1 male mouse? Or is it too stressful

I wanna get this for my mice but do know we’re to but it what should I do?

@Emiology

4 жыл бұрын

Ikea is the only place to get it

@clownboy3879

4 жыл бұрын

Oh I’m sorry I meant I do not know were to put it sense it so large is it ok to put on my floor I have 2 female mice I want to put in there is this cage to big for them thanks for responding

Hi emiology I need your help please help my mice all 7 of them are over 40 grams I think 3 of them over 50 please make a video on it as I may not be the only person having this problem and we really need help as they are bigger than my palm and they can't fit in there wheel a 8 inch

@Emiology

4 жыл бұрын

If they’re all overweight you need to not give them any treats and reduce the amount of food you’re giving them. Try to have more play time where they can run around outside their enclosure if they’re not using a wheel to help them lose weight

Is there any way to make a lid just out of mesh, without the wood?? Please answer.

@Emiology

4 жыл бұрын

I don’t know, it wouldn’t be very secure and they’d probably be able to push just mesh off the top

@sushiluvr18

4 жыл бұрын

Emiology Ok. Thank you for replying ❤️

So it’s ok to have only 2 female mice in a detolf

If I don’t have a lid for this cage can I just use the glass door?

@Emiology

3 жыл бұрын

No. Any animal you keep in here needs ventilation the glass won’t provide that

@brandonrigby1430

3 жыл бұрын

@@Emiology thank you!! I’ve just purchased the unit now but I will have to make a lid 😇

Could you use this cage for rats or would it be better to build a custom one, sorry if that was a dumb question but I'm new to all this.

@Emiology

4 жыл бұрын

No rats can’t live in tanks and even if they could it’s too small

@dianavelez1262

4 жыл бұрын

Emiology ok thanks for responding

I wonder if you could use this with reptiles 🤔

@Emiology

4 жыл бұрын

I know people that use it with bearded dragons

would it be okay to do either half the cage for a hamster and half for two/three female mice or a quarter of the cage for two female mice and then 3 quarters for the hamster? i have been researching a lot about mice and apparently it’s better for them to have less space than a hamster

@Emiology

3 жыл бұрын

A lot of hamsters still aren't happy even in a detolf and need more space, so I wouldn't split it. I also wouldn't split the cage unless I was completely confident it could be done in a way that they would never come into contact, probably best to have two entirely separate enclosures :)

@lucybarnett8615

3 жыл бұрын

@@Emiology thanks so much!