Kaytee Comfort Wheel Large 8.5 Inches
$14.19
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The Kaytee Comfort Wheel features a safe, solid running surface, quiet operation and a “tail-safe” design, allowing small pets easy entrance and exit. Every Comfort Wheel comes with a heavy duty wire stand and a 2-way attachment clip, so the wheel can be used either free-standing or clipped to a wire cage. Available in sizes small, large or giant. Perfect for hamsters, mice, gerbils, rabbits, chinchillas and ferrets.
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
Product Dimensions : 8.25 x 8.25 x 9.75 inches; 8.04 ounces
Item model number : 100079363
Department : Unisex-Adult
Date First Available : June 20, 2004
Manufacturer : Central Garden & Pet
ASIN : B0002AS94C
Best Sellers Rank: #21,906 in Pet Supplies (See Top 100 in Pet Supplies) #17 in Small Animal Exercise Wheels
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Specially designed for quiet spinning
Encourages healthy exercise
8.5″ diameter
Best for hamsters and rats
Free standing or attach directly to any wire cage
TIP: To keep your Comfort Wheel running quiet, place a few drops of vegetable oil on the wheel hub where the wheel spins.
Colors vary from purple, green, or blue
Kourtney –
Great purchase, great size, great price!
Perfect size for my Syrian hamsters. My kiddos helped them get comfortable using it and now they run on it constantly! It squeaked a bit but we put Vaseline on the inside of the wheel where the white plastic bar fits in and the squeaking stopped! Definitely recommend buying and we’ll most likely be buying a 2nd one because of having 2 hamsters.
R. Simmons –
Great Size for a Great Price
One of my children loves hamsters and two years ago we purchased one to be just hers. He was an extremely large, fat hamster and had outgrown his wheel. My daughter had been asking for ages for a new wheel and I finally purchased this large hamster wheel for him. The sad thing is he only used it a few days. I suppose I should have seen it coming as he was quite old.Well, last week we headed to the pet store and adopted a beautiful white hamster. He is much smaller and thinner than the last one, but he loves his wheel and runs on it all night long.My daughter says the wheel is not silent, but has a rhythmic sound. Not loud, but It definitely makes a noise when moving. What makes this wheel better than her last one, is it is not metal and does not have the mesh which sometimes the little guy would get his feet stuck into. The only drawback to an enclosed wheel, is hamsters are not picky on where they pee and so the wheel gets filthy now and then.The wheel fits fine at one end of a 10 gallon tank. We also have other habitats and tubes for the little guy to roam about as the tank would be too small with the wheel, house, food dishes and water all placed in the tank. But again everything I mentioned is in the 10 gallon tank and the wheel fits perfectly.Pros:Extremely large – even our old hamster which is one of the largest I have ever seen fit on it just fineNo mesh so little feet do not get hurtInexpensive – by far the cheapest wheel out there for the sizeFits in the 10 gallon tankCons:Not silent
James –
My Nieces gerbils love it, but be prepared to clean it every other day due to their pee.
I got my niece two new baby gerbils for her birthday and settled on this wheel vs other smaller ones or the ones with a mesh wire grate or the really expansive ones. I was worried this might be to big for them to spin up or stop once its going as they are so small, but it’s working out just fine. Once they figure out what it is they probally spend an hour or more a day in it.But it’s not without its faults, here are the pros and cons that we have observed.Pros- The gerbils love it and use it so that’s the main point.- Even though its big it rotates freely so they can get it going with no problem. Also its not so massive that they can’t stop.- The entire wheel is solid so unlike the wire mesh kind there is no way their little paws can get stuck in the mesh and injured. Also since the entire wheel is solid it contains all their pee as they do pee while running on it. So you won’t get pee slung around their enclosure like other kinds.- The wire stand it mounts onto pulls right off and the wheel can be pulled off the post it rotates on making cleaning a snap. We just put it in the kitchen sink and spray it with sanitizer and rise it all out. Also since the wheel just slides off the mount you can ditch the stand if you have a wire cage and mount it to your cages bars. Our tank is a 20 gallon aquarium so we need the stand.Cons- Since they will pee in it as they are running you need to be prepared to clean it every other day as it gets rank pretty quick. The plus side is that it contains all the pee and it dries on the wheel until cleaning. And since the pee can’t get slung out into their tank or bedding it keeps their bedding and tank cleaner much longer.- The wheel is pretty loud! The gerbils are in their own room, but you can hear them when they jump on it. I cut out a felt circle and mounted it the shaft the wheel buts up to and that cut the noise down in half but it’s still loud because of a few of the other reasons below.- The wheel is really out of balance and they can get it rotating very fast so it shakes badly contributing to its noise profile.- The wire mount has a bit of a spring action to it contributing to the vibration and noise as well.- As the wheel spins it will start rotating due to gyroscopic progression (look it up). What this means is that it will start turning on its axis 90degs to the direction of the wheels spin and eventually hit anything like the side of your tank, etc. You’ll just have to either reset it every day or weigh it down.For the price it can’t be beat. The Gerbils do compete to use it so if you have more than one you probally need to get a second wheel. Once I can expand their enclosure I’m gong to get them a second wheel.A few pics and a slow-mo vid attached. Keep in mind that these are new gerbils that are only like 2 months old and are pretty small. I can’t see how they would be comfortable in one of those 6 inch wheels!
Mio Anderson –
Decent wheel for the price
Definitely not a quiet wheel, and a little wobbly, but great for the price. Large, spins well, and my mice love running on their big stupid wheel.
mossmouse –
The squeaky wheel gets the grease…
Purchased this in the 8.5″ size for our baby syrian hamster. We wanted to mount it directly to the side of the cage (standard Crittertrail). The stand DOES come off… it’s just on very tight and makes you think you’re going to break it if you pull hard enough. I put the stand on the floor with my feet on top of the wire base, grasped the axle part inside the wheel and pulled HARD. It popped off and nothing was broken. The plastic clip part that goes through the wire bars and twists to keep it on is very stiff and ended up bending the cage bars but it is secure.After installing it we found it to be incredibly loud, not squeaky but a very loud rumble that you can hear in the next room and downstairs. So off to youtube to find some hacks… we decided on the packing tape/oil hack. To do this you use a pair of pliers and pinch the tip of the axle to pop the wheel off. Then you take a piece of clear packing tape and wrap it around the axle and put a thin layer of veggie/olive/mineral oil on that.. reassemble and hope for the best.It worked. It’s not completely silent but we can all sleep now.Lessons learned… if you want an inexpensive hamster wheel that is safe and comfortable for your hamster, but that you’ll have to finish engineering, this is fine. But if you want something that works well right out of the box, keep looking. Get one of the silent spinner types.For us, this is a temporary wheel. We’ll be making a bin cage and using a 12″ silent spinner for our syrian as he gets bigger.Edit: Update, our packing tape hack only kept it quieter a night or two, so we tried putting a rubber band around the back of the axle, which is another hack that’s been suggested, again, not much difference.
أحمد –
it does the job and hamster plays on it. but its loud and GET VERY LOUD and squeeky in just a day
Océane –
Pas silencieuse comme indiqué mais taille parfaite
Liss –
It is funny, I asked for this exercise wheel but I received an exercise ball, frankly speaking it was an excellent product and my ham loves it very much. I don’t know whether it will break if fell down. Very easy to use.
Theresa Hoffmann –
Einfach zu reinigen, lässt sich auch ohne Kugellager super einfach bewegen – mein Igel liebt es 🦔
María Fernanda Flores Arizmendi –
Es una buena rueda con buen soporte, si hace un poco de ruido pero es algo que se tolera, a mi hámster sirio le encantó y es del tamaño adecuado para ella.