I have always used the 4 oz (maybe they're 5oz, I'm not sure) Oasis Bell
Bottles and have never had a problem. They have never leaked and I have
never had one destroyed by a chew-crazy gerb.
Jill
> >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
