Well we've had a bit of an ongoing problem with the ASF's chewing their water bottles. I've tried to cage the bottles in, they climb the caging and manage to chew holes in the bottle anyways. I thought about purchasing the more expensive glass water bottles for rodents but have heard bad reports on them often being defective.

I'm one of those odd people that don't throw away things that might one day be usuable (it's the Scots blood in me) so I've always just unscrewed and tossed the working bottle spigots into a drawer in the rat room. Figured someday I might have a busted spigot on a good bottle or something.

Well today one of our two ASF's colonies destroyed another water bottle and I needed a fast fix that didn't involve running way across town to the only pet store that sells glass bottles.

Amazing what you can come up with isn't it!





Laugh all you want but hey it's working perfectly! The beer bottle fit the spigot just fine - we added the tape just to make sure it's a perfect fit and won't leak - it fits my bottle holder - and the rats are loving it! Works beautifully, the water drops are coming out perfectly, it's bubbling up correctly when they drink and not leaking when they aren't. Best bit it cost me all of 5 minutes of my time and used up something that was destined to take up room in my recycle bin anyways.

I'm lovin' it!