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Some guinea pigs may learn to swim, but that dosn't mean to say that they like it .Why have the water so deep? just for your benifit to see if they can swim? Of course the guinea pig is trying to reach the side, its terrified and its not surprising because the water is so deep!

As for the mesh,they can badly damage their feet or nails. You don't have to completly clean a cage out every day, you can just pick out the wet patches and most of the poop and do a top of woodshavings (whatever you use) and change any soiled hay everyday. That way they arn't living on their own waste. Throughly clean it out once a week. A few poops in the cage won't do them any harm and by removing most of them each day, they will stay clean.