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Hey all, In the past few weeks, I had seen Diamond's eye water twice and get just a little pink around it, but each time, it went away by morning and then didn't see it again for about a week. I was watching it, but not concerned yet since it went away (I thought it might be loose hay getting...

I hope this is the right forum - but it has to do with introductions. We got a new ebony girl at the NY/NE Show. The new one is Opal and my two residents are Diamond and Pearl. After the quarantine period, we had several failed attempts at introductions. It turned out that Diamond and Opal...

No wait...it's just the monstrous toy Christine (Twilight Chinchillas) made for me! I told her an idea for a toy, but I didn't expect this! It's AMAZING and the girls are having a blast destroying it. I absolutely love it. Christine is just awesome! Please excuse the poops and Pearl needing...

I just received my purple Silver Surfer today, and the girls already love it, even though they have a Chin Spin as well. I'm a little worried though - the wheel is not parallel to the metal back support, and it wobbles really bad when they run on it. I just wanted to see if this is normal for...

I really tried to research this on my own, but I can't find exactly what seems to match this girl. A woman I volunteer with at a shelter adopted this girl from the shelter a few years ago. All this time she thought it was a standard gray, but she definitely is not. Since she was a rescue, we...

Hey all! So my girls are both around a year old now (maybe a few months over), and I've had them since February. I've been trying to weigh them monthly and only missed one month so far. Pearl seems to still be growing at a steady pace, and she is younger than Diamond probably by a few months...

I had JUST ordered one of these from bunnyrabbit.com a few days ago (along with a Nivek bottle) and paid out the wazoo for shipping. This weekend I was in a different PetSmart than my usual and saw these in the store with a "New Item" tag. I kicked myself a little bit, but I thought I'd share...

I Want... by AnimalHumaneSociety This video is SUPER sweet, I was -really- close to crying.

I had to share this, I was a little flabbergasted when I took the Chin Spin out of the box. This thing is HUGE! I definitely underestimated how big 15" is. The size is worth it, the girls run on it so much faster and for longer periods now than their 12" wheel, but I wanted to share a size...

Hey all, My chins have gotten incredibly picky about their hay in the last month or so. I give them Oxbow timothy hay right now, and they will NOT eat the hard stalks, they literally pull them out and toss them aside (all over their cage). They waste about half of their hay because of this...

I think I'm getting a little too antsy about my future FN142. I have some uncut fleece yet that I originally got to make more cage liners, but I just thought about the shelves in the cage. I want to leave the shelves in, since I plan to take out the middle separator to have one big cage so...

Hey all, I am currently speaking with someone from Craig's List about a FN142 they are selling for $70. The ad said "There's a bit of rusting between the top and bottom bars in one corner of the cage (only found out when I was taking it apart)." When I emailed them, I asked for more info...

Hey all, I tried searching the forums but I couldn't find anything. How much water should a chin usually drink in a day? One of my chins is still having consistently soft poo, even with nothing but loose hay in her diet, and the two of them go through water pretty quickly, no leak in the...

I just had to share this story of what happened this morning with our younger chinchilla, Pearl. Background info: We have 2 chinchillas right now, Pearl and Diamond. They are temporarily separated due to some changes with Diamond's diet. Because of this, we rearranged our rodents and Pearl is...

I just need somewhere to vent for a little bit, bear with me please. I just got my first two chinchillas within the last few weeks - we got Pearl about 3.5 weeks ago, and got Diamond a little over 2 weeks ago. Pearl is fine right now, she's always had dry, hard poop, normal size from what I...

For those of you who use fleece liners, what do you do about hay sticking to fleece? I currently use a metal "hay manger" and my two chins throw the hay all over their cage. I changed the fleece liner for the first time tonight (I just switched from bedding to fleece) and for the life of me, I...

Hello, I just got a new female Mosaic chin last night from a pet store. I'd guess she's about 7-8 months old, I'm not sure, I just know she is bigger than my 4-6 month old Standard girl, and she's not full grown. I'm concerned about her fur. Her white fur is NOT pure white, it's off-white...

Hello, I am a new chin owner and the cage I have has a wire grid bottom, then a pan that slides out underneath that all the waste goes into. Right now we are using Carefresh bedding in the bottom, but since our chin won't be in contact with it, and it uses a LOT of bedding to cover the...

Hello! My husband and I just got our first chinchilla this past Saturday. We had been talking about getting one for a few months on and off. The PetSmart near us had a pair of females (gray and beige) and I REALLY wanted a beige one, but we would have gotten them both. When we finally...