>I have another one as a follow-up to how often water
>bottle water should be changed.. I have an 8 oz water
>bottle and it seems I waste a lot of water changing it
>every day or even every two days.
Wasting water? Unless you're putting medication in
it, just dump it out into a plant or something if you're
bothered about it all.
If you're medicating, then just mix 4 oz of it at a
time and only partly fill the bottle.
>Should I return the 8 oz and buy a 4 oz instead? What
>sizes do you guys have?
I use 10 ounce Lixit, with a few 10 ounce Quick Quench (almost
identical looking) bottles for almost everything. A few 5 oz
bottles from same manufacturers were for retrofitting varous
cage setups from the drippy leaky things they were supplied
with, or as one for those (i.e., Sam Safari) that don't come
with a bottle. [I swear the Sam 'canteen' bottles are about
the worst ones ever made. You cannot get them to do anything
but drip out in about fifteen minutes after you fill them.]
And if you can't retrofit a setup with a 5 oz Lixit bottle, it's
because it's too small to hold an animal.
When dumping, I would dump into the aquarium sumps (we
have our tanks on continuous feed drip with overflow so we
don't have to change water) that drain out into the flowerbeds
outside. So, no 'wasted' water.
Daily water bottle changing is good, it helps with cutting
the slime and algae and mold growing in the bottle. A
weekly rinse, and a monthly soapy warm water scrub with
bottle brush and a very good rinse, keeps bottles clean.
Deb
Rebel's Rodent Ranch
