Rodent room build

[Fedwa001]

This is awesome

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[LittleTreeGuy]

Asking because I have no clue... why have a tub that fills up with water?

[PitOnTheProwl]

Asking because I have no clue... why have a tub that fills up with water?

Watering system for rat racks.

[LittleTreeGuy]

Watering system for rat racks.

So, fill up the tub, then just a gravity fed, drip-type system from there?

[OhhWatALoser]

Lol I guess it does look weird as is. I havn't got my tank connectors yet, perhaps it will make more sense when it looks like this

[PitOnTheProwl]

So, fill up the tub, then just a gravity fed, drip-type system from there?

http://www.reptilebasics.com/rodent-watering/
All the parts for you to visualize

[Albert Clark]

Man, I wish I would've paid attention when I went to vocational school back in the day. Maybe I would be able to do some of this work. Kudos Owal. I am awestruck that you can do all this work essentially alone. Guess it helps to be a jack of all trades.

[Darkbird]

Not taking anything away from this awesome build (wish I had that much space to work with!!), but I think a lot more people are capable of something like this than they realize. If you can put a rodent of snake rack together in the first place, you should be able to handle this. Plenty of info to help you out available online.
Owal, are you planning anything for filtering the water feeding into the tubs? Just curious as sediment and mineral buildup are usually the main causes for valve failures in these systems.

[OhhWatALoser]

Not taking anything away at all, I said the same thing in this thread on post 17.

I have no plans for filtering currently, I used to have problems with the variflow valves, but I switched to the reptile basic ones which use a spring and havn't had a failure yet. The tank connectors have a built in screen which gets dust and what not. I might make it a habit to clean everything once in a while incase of any build up like that.

Worst case scenario, I have issues and I add a filter of some sort lol.

[Darkbird]

I wasn't thinking anything too fancy, maybe just a micron particle filter inline with the feed for the tubs. And in my case, even using RO water I have to clean the filter screens every 2-3 months due to the buildup of bacterial film. I need to clean my lines too, come to think of it, lol.