Inca-bink
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-Are they loud? Every chinchilla cage I've owned has forced me out of my bedroom at night.
-Are they easy to move? (if I were by myself, could I move the cage from an apartment to the U-Haul?)
-Does the cage split into two parts? I have 2 males, 1 female
-Do they only sell them online or are they available in some stores?
I find mine quieter than my old Martin's cage, but I made a couple of changes to help keep the noise down. It is very loud if you keep the plastic pans in it, but with the Bass pan and a pillowcase under it, I don't hear much except the jingling of the bells I put on their toys. The wheel rattles the cage a bit, but I don't think it would make a lot of noise if you set it up better than I bother to (it isn't in my bedroom) and worked it out so you don't have all the jingling bits that I have..
I have taken apart, loaded into my car, drove across country, and put it back together again all by myself. It is a little on the heavy side, but it has wheels for room to room movement and it comes apart pretty easily. It is a little too big to move on your own without taking it apart.
I have a 142 (2 level) without a center pan, but plenty of people split it into 2 cages. Potentially you could have as many levels stacked on top of one another as you want, but I don't think it is very stable after a while. I think 3 is the max that I've seen in a single cage.
I bought mine online because it was the cheapest way to go, but I've seen them in stores as well. It was delivered like 2 days after I ordered it though.