I hang the bottle on the *outside* of the tank, with only the tip poking in.
This way, the damage they can inflict on it is minimal, and they can't climb
it to escape. Of course, it's only possible with a wire cage or a plastic
tank (I have a plastic one, and I used a hot object to make a hole for the
bottle tip) . Usually it's not hard to hang it somehow on the outside (I
made another hole at the top of the tank and tied a string to it and to the
bottle to hold it. But you can make other supports as well - remember, when
it's on the outside, it doesn't have to be as firm as on the inside, because
the gerbils will not try to topple and eat it...).
Yael
----- Original Message -----
From: Leenknegt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 7:09 PM
Subject: Bottle in tank
> Hi all!
>
> I wanted to know: how do you guys hang your waterbottles in your tanks?
> In Belgium it's very hard to find a bottle which you can easily hang in a
> tank. I once found one, but it is very onpractical and it takes too much
> place. So I made my own bottle holder.
> I took a plastic water bottle from 0,5 liters, I cut of the top. At the
> bottom I make a hole to put the tube (lack of a better word: the piece
where
> they drink from) through. That way I have a holder for my bottle, and the
> holder I hang up in one corner of the tank.
> I take 3 piece of mesh wire and put them together so that I have one
corner.
> This I hold together with brass wire. This corner goes over one corner of
> the tank and I attach the holder at the mesh wire.
> Now my problem is that two of my gerbs have taken a bet: they want to
> destroy as many holders as fast as possible. So today I could replace the
> first one. To prevent this from happening I put a very nasty tasting stuff
> on the holder (which they obviously didn't like), to prevent them from
> gnawing at it (at least, I hope!)
> For the ones who followed me this far (congrats!), are there any handymen
> out there that know the perfect way to hang a bottle in a tank?
> THANKS, sorry for the long story!
> Sarah
>
