Tight Budget watering system?

[SlitherinSisters]

I wouldn't trust anything cheap. I've lost dozens of rats because of leaky nozzles. I have tried both kinds of nozzles from Reptile Basics, but I really prefer the vari-flow valves, these: http://www.reptilebasics.com/vari-flow-drinking-valve I do not like the rodent valves, these: http://www.reptilebasics.com/rodent-...rinking-valve/ I've had nothing but trouble with them. I contacted Rich and he was great, sent me new parts which fixed the problem, but as soon as they get dirty again they leak. You have to take them apart fairly often to clean them, and I'm just too lazy for that. The Vari-Flow valves don't have that problem. I've had maybe one of those leak in the 4 years I've been using them.

For people worried about drowning, i drilled holes in the bottom of my plastic bins, and then glued metal washers on both sides of the hole to prevent chewing, and put a small bit of mesh wire in between the washers to prevent babies from falling through or anything like that. So if it ever did leak, it would be able to drain quickly and I'd just have some very sad wet rodents, instead of a bunch of very dead rodents.

That's a really good idea!