Kaytee Silent Spinner Wheel For Pet Mice and Dwarf Hamsters, Mini 4.5 Inch

I have five hamsters at the moment so I bought one of these wheels to try it out since one of the wheels is so ridiculously loud it wakes up all the other hamsters and myself sometimes (luckily, I'm a heavy sleeper). It was too smooth for my five month old Robo, Nova, and she ended up flying off it multiple times before I just gave her her old one back. But she also runs at the speed of light and makes very quick stops that this wheel just isn't equipped for. So I put the old, crazy loud wheel back and gave this one to my Robo boy, Brüno. Well he is a wheel fanatic (if he's awake, he's running) and already had a wheel in his cage that was attached to a tube system, but he's approximately a year old (I adopted him from his previous owner who had gotten him from Petsmart so no one really knows how old he is) and he needed another option to use if he couldn't use the tubes as he is getting older. Well this is his favorite thing in the whole wide world. He takes turns running up the tubes to use the high wheel and then running down to use this one and then running up again. He's a little maniac but he's having so much fun so this was a great purchase for him. Then, my Campbell dwarf mother and daughters trio started fighting for no reason so I separated them and I had to move this wheel to one of the new cages and I ordered another of these wheels for the other. Now that everyone is settled, and I have five cages in my room, I will be ordering one more so Brüno can have two wheels in his cage. He was very disappointed when I had to take his new wheel away. Overall, I am entirely pleased with this wheel, and while it's not completely silent, the wheel itself it very smooth and could be very quiet if you don't have little chubby or lightning fast feet zooming on it. My one hamster that briskly walks on it, I don't even hear. But my hamster that goes full speed on it, I hear some shaking and big hamster stomps. But this really isn't an issue considering all the noise I get from Nova's. I am a very happy customer and I will be ordering another!

No complaints, and the hamster really seems to like it! [Update: It does get noisy eventually.]PRICE, QUALITY, PRICE FOR QUALITY: Good quality, appropriate price (on Amazon). I dunno what's the reviews saying the yellow thingie falls off; mine is fine and it's been weeks. I'm using it on the ground with the stand.SIZE: I heard the next size down was too small for roborovoskis except for babies, so I bought this one. It seems comfortable and spacious for my adult female roborovski, but not so big that I feel like I went TOO big. I'm happy that she has more running room (side to side) and that it's a flatter run for her (rather than her having to arch her back).GETTING DIRTY: Yes, you have to wash the urine & feces off of it from time to time, but why have a pet if you aren't willing to take care of it? This wheel is probably much safer and much more comfortable for their little feet than a wire one that the urine & feces can drop through, so, that's just how it goes. Suck it up for the sake of your hamster (and your ears).Besides, I don't see why wire wheels would need to be cleaned any less often (even if the need to do so isn't as immediately visually obvious) but, sadly, I bet a lot of people go weeks or months letting them get all nasty. That's a problem with the OWNER, not with plastic vs. metal wheels...NOISE: It's not utterly silent (duh), but it's so quiet that I generally don't realize that she's using it unless I look and see it. When you're lying in bed and thinking about it, sure, you can hear it a bit, but I was going insane from the previous wheel (even with olive oil on it), whereas now I never even think about it, ever. Her scritching and scratching about the cage is distracting for me, some nights, but never the wheel. [Update: Yeah, it gets noisy eventually, and now I'm back to needing earplugs. Took a few months though, not weeks.]Recommended! It's also attractive. I'm glad mine turned out to be purple :)

My rat wouldn't use it.

Mine came louder than a subway train car. What the heck is this made out of that makes it that loud? WD-40 barely helped, but the size of the wheel is nice enough for my Syrian. All I have to do I just fall asleep before she begins her night routine.

The media could not be loaded. I started with the 4.5" wheel for my hermit crabs. It's the perfect size for my tiny hermit crabs like the one in the video. Someone else was rehoming hermit crabs so now I have 3 larger ones as well. They also love the 4.5" wheel but they're legs tend to go over the sides and they shove eachother off not wanting to wait for their turn.I decided to get a second wheel and figured it may as well be a bigger one. I saw these Kaytee ones were pretty cheap so thought I'd try a 'better' one. Well I tried a different brand that cost twice as much, and one of my crabs got his legs stuck in the holes on the back of the wheel and had to be rescued. So I ended up having to throw that one away (I'd feel bad returning it since they poop on the wheel a lot). I then bought the Kaytee 6.5" instead since I liked the mini so well. I got lucky with the random colors and ended up with the same color as my other wheel.Both sizes are great and I appreciate them more after a different brand flopped. There's no spots for the crabs to get stuck on the wheel. It's super quiet, mostly plastic, easy to clean. I have seen on fb someone else's crab got a leg stuck in the metal stand, but I buried the stand in the substrate since metal and rust are bad for hermits anyway. Now I sometimes see one crab on the smaller wheel and 2 on the big one (not always trying to walk the same direction...). I guess sometimes the more expensive options aren't always better than the cheaper ones that are easier to find.