What? Most water bottles for hamsters work well because those bottles are for rodents.... what kinda bottle are you using? Critter Canteen? Habitrail? Delikate? Wild? KingFisher?

if we go to petaling street petshop, we can see different size of bottle there..

i'm using this brand of bottle.. so far no problem occured..
only bitten by my hamsters/ gerbils..

I dunno. There's a black bird and mouse picture on it with the content ml scale.

Which brand is good? I'm getting a new one tmr.

Is it transparent? Then the cover is black? I'm using that I think.... so far that is not bad.

There is no need to squeeze the bottle, coz if you do that, you are actually making the bottle's condition worse.

Yea that's it! The cover is black.. But the gerbil seems to be having difficulty sucking it. The water coming out of it is too slow.

LOL... they don't suck lah.... they lick. The water is suppose to come out slow so that there is no leakage, and it controls their drinking as well so they won't choke. This goes for Habitrail and Critter Canteen but then Habitrail is prone to leaking and also the cover breaks after long usage.

This is called Gravity bottles, the water flows according to gravity, not pressure. If you squeeze it, you will disrupt the vacuum inside, causing the bottle to leak later on..... The water should come out in drops.... 1 or 2 drops at a time each time we push the metal tip. It should never flow freely out. Just droplets.

But it scares me. Like 2 days and the water level didnt go down..

Do you include veggie and fruits as well? Gerbils do not drink along of water.... 3 gerbils of mine actually share 1 tank, they need about 1 week to finish the bottle... sometimes 1.5 week. This is coz of diet. If you feed fresh veggies and fruits often, they don't need much water.

They will drink when thirsty, do not worry. They can go longer without water than hamsters.

No, I only feed them mealworms. Hard to get fruits and vege in nilai.

When you refill the water, do you test to make the water drip out nicely but never leak? Also, you cannot fill the bottle full, you need to leave at least 15% of space so the vacuum can work.

Thats what I did lol.. You know the rubber ring in it? I try taking it out and the water leaked out in no time. Lol..

make sure the slipet... they can see n smell each others..

ok the bottle....

the problem of this bootle is there is the rubber ring at the cover there right.. with the tiny hole...

the bubble will stuck there n don't flow throught the bottle, so after they finished the water in the TUBE. no more water for them. what u can do is...

cut the hole abit bigger, but cut bit by bit till u roll the ball and u see bubbles flwo up to the bottle. also the cover u canot turn tooo tight.. gam gam no leaking will do. n don't be greedy to cut big hole 1 shot then u bottle will bye bye.... cut bit by bit till u see the bubble flow out. its a good bottle to use

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Added on September 23, 2007, 1:11 amss15 subang got new pets more. facing tai tong that side.

This post has been edited by nezumitaro: Sep 23 2007, 01:11 AM

There's vege and fruits if u go to pasar malam nearby

*cough* lol jill y are u here?

Ok, i'll try with the bottle thingy soon.

Btw, what genes is suitable to breed with a sp black to get a nice colour?

No1 ever got siamese or burmese before? I think there are some colorpoint genes rite?

Rubber ring? No... mine has no rubber ring, I think.... the rubber ring bottle leaks if I do not place at the correct angle LOL.....

Foo, you had this problem before ah? Hahah... I never see this happen to any of my bottles before.... so far all good working bottles, but I hate Habitrail. Prefer Critter Canteen....

No rubber ring?! Amazing la.. Mine without rubber ring flows like pipe.

Yesterday something a bit weird happened. I gave my gerbils a bit of bread for breakfast, then I cleaned their tank, threw away all the shavings with the leftover food and wash it.... then refill the tank with clean shavings and straw, then I went to clean the other tanks... few hours later I came back to that tank.. then I saw the pieces of bread still there in the tank.

It's called gerbil magic

Well, yesterday just got another Argente boy from Foo. Named him Teh C coz of the color. The first intro went well & I'm a bit relieve. Guess my 5 sumos are quite easy to get along with new member. Will try intro again soon.

I guess you didn't notice the bread lor.. perhaps a few of your gerbils still having it in their mouth.. just biting it but you can't see since their mouth is at the bottom?