Xpen or NIC for rabbit condo.

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- 03/31/2011 at 10:14 AM
  mocha200
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  So I am going to be making a rabbit condo in about a month or two and I was wondering if I should use NIC grids or an xpen. I would like to use a xpen so the condo is more sturdy, but I have herd its a real pain to put the pen back together after you take it apart. I would just use NIC grids but I don’t think I will have enough.
  
  – so is it really that hard to put an xpen back together
  
  – Do you think I should use NIC grids or an xpen.
- 04/01/2011 at 3:10 AM
  Beka27
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  Yes, it is that hard to put an xpen back together. I would suggest you not take it apart. You could get a pen and just make some shelving for the inside using NIC grids and dowels, it doesn’t have to be a full condo.
- 04/01/2011 at 2:07 PM
  KatnipCrzy
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  Xpens are connected together with metal type hinges/clips that once you pry them apart- they are never going to be the same. I did have 2 xpens that I bought and configured into a pen with 2 doors and divider because I was bonding Griffin and Schroeder at the time. I like the xpen panels because they are so sturdy- but yet they are really heavy too, heavier than using NIC grids I think. One of these days I am going to get around to adding a shelf to the boys pen and make it more of a condo than a pen.
- 04/01/2011 at 2:23 PM
  mocha200
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  You could get a pen and just make some shelving for the inside using NIC grids and dowels, it doesn’t have to be a full condo.
  
  do you mean by a new pen?
  I would do that but then they wouldn’t have much space because the condo is at our trailer house and the rooms are extremely tiny and I only have enough room for 2×4 and maybe not even that big, so if it was a condo they would have 2 or 3 shelves that are 2×4 so that they have more room.
  
  Xpens are connected together with metal type hinges/clips that once you pry them apart- they are never going to be the same.
  
  We have a store near us that sells those clips in the small animal section, I don’t know what they are for but they are the same clips. Is the only hard part about taking one apart the clips?
- 04/02/2011 at 4:13 AM
  Beka27
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  No, I thought you already had an xpen. I didn’t realize this was for the other house. In that case, I’d just make a simple NIC condo then.
- 04/02/2011 at 6:22 AM
  mocha200
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  But I don’t have enough grids…. I guess I could buy more, but I am already paying 200+ for the outside pen.
- 04/02/2011 at 6:23 AM
  mocha200
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  Oh and I have 2 Xpens
- 04/03/2011 at 6:06 AM
  Beka27
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  You could just fasten an xpen into a 2×4 rectangle and tuck the other panels behind. Then make some shelves with grids. It’s temporary, so I would try to do it simple. Taking it apart would be a big process.
- 04/03/2011 at 7:12 AM
  mocha200
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  I will see if that works. Thanks!
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