[crazywiggy]

I would definitly go for the recommended cage sizes (rather than minimums) or even bigger if you possibly can. My two girls have the equivalent of a 2x5 and it still seems small to me once I put their hay box and pigloos in it.

If you don't seem to have enough space try having a major sprnig clean. When I decided to get some piggies you wouldn't have thought we had space for a hamster cage! Little things like getting rid of stuff you don't need, and better organisation and storage of the things you do need can make a big difference.

I just want to add, please realise that you can make up the recommended cage sizes (in terms of floor space) without keeping the same configuration. For example, making the cages wider.

I get too confused working in feet, inches, square inches etc so I will just explain in terms of grids.

The recommended cage size for 4 females (or 3 males as they need more space) is a 2x6. This is 12 square grids of floor space.

If you made two 3x4 cages each group would still get 12 square grids of space.

Ziggy - just wanted to point out here that a 3x4 is actually bigger than a 2x5 (12 as opposed to 10 sq grids) and a 3x3 is bigger than a 2x4 (9 rather than 8).

For maximum potential you can also overlap grids - just a couple of extra inches on the length and/or width could make all the difference. Hence my cage is actually a 2.5x4.

Hope this helped a bit!